Storms are the engines that create swell. When a powerful low-pressure system starts spinning off the coastline of any part ...

Colten’s specialty is historical geography, the practice of researching how and why areas have changed in the past. His career includes stints studying where hazardous waste sites might lie, responses ...

may have ended without any landfalling hurricanes, but 23 weather- and climate-related disasters topped one billion dollars ...

The year of 2025 was one of the costliest for insurers in terms of natural disasters, resulting in insured losses totaling $88 billion.

Thus, Biscayne works best as a day trip. Many visitors stay and eat in Florida City or Homestead, about a 20-minute drive ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency this week said it spent about $11 billion helping people and communities recover from back-to-back hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024. Nearly $8 billion of th ...

From deadly floods to billion-dollar wildfires, 2025 made it painfully clear that climate extremes are the new normal.

In August, 2005, America suffered one of the worst disasters in its long history when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. The massive storm caused widespread damage across the region, but it was in ...

We’ve learned a lot,” said State Rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, R-Houma, who chairs a House panel on disaster recovery. “We ...

Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica after the storm made landfall on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, one of the ...

Introduction : Katrina's impact / Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd -- Who sank New Orleans? How engineering the river created environmental injustice / Karen M. O'Neill -- Invisible ...