This paper provides a novel global estimate of poverty due to disasters, showing that 25.6 million people are at risk of poverty due to disasters, 12.7 million thereof facing extreme poverty. Disaster ...

Warning systems can engage people on a personal level — if they are built in a way that bridges technology and social science.

Climate change is making extreme weather events and natural hazards more frequent and intense. Here’s how to prepare before ...

Powerful hurricanes have shaped coastal communities for centuries, leaving behind destruction that can alter entire regions.

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Disaster costs fell in the U.S. in 2025. Still, it was the fourth time in five years that extreme weather inflicted more than ...

Yu Wang receives funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project-ID: 72302033). Michel Magnan and Yetaotao Qiu do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

With extreme weather events, fires and floods growing increasingly common, general warnings are no longer adequate. Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with the World Meteorological ...

We are the survivors of natural disasters that have devastated our communities: the floods in Texas, tornadoes in Missouri, wildfires in California and hurricanes in North Carolina. Over the past year ...

For many Californians, it was supposed to be a quiet Christmas; a chance to slow down and spend time with family and friends. Instead, a powerful storm dropped 12 inches of rain in parts of the state, ...

Just prior to the full fury of January’s great winter storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared it would “cease offboarding” frontline disaster responders whose terminations were pending ...

Small-scale natural catastrophes in the U.S. are becoming costlier for insurers. For the first time in a decade, the U.S. was spared by a direct hurricane hit in 2025. But claim costs for non-peak ...