The Getty Villa withstood the onslaught of flames thanks in part to proactive brush management; other institutions weren’t so ...

According to ABC’s report, major insurers in the US have reduced or ceased offering property coverage in high-risk areas like ...

The costliest disasters on the National Centers for Environmental Information "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said in a "Meet the Press" interview that the wildfires that have destroyed entire ...

Tens of thousands of California residents will decide whether to permanently relocate or rebuild their homes after the most ...

The catastrophe has been years in the making as the state’s largest insurance companies discontinued coverage for thousands ...

With strong winds, dry conditions and no immediate end in sight, analysts project total economic losses of $50 billion to ...

The devastating wildfires which have hit Los Angeles and other parts of southern California could be one of the costliest ...

Cellphone towers in Hawke’s Bay need larger back-up batteries to help prevent outages in natural disasters, a move that would likely cost close to $20 million but would help save lives ...

FEMA declared 179 disasters in the U.S. in 2024 ... [Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images] Tama has worked for Getty for more than 20 years, and he’s had a front row seat to the way climate change ...

These more recent effects are the tail end of a longer-term trend – 40 years ago, Canada experienced 20 natural disasters a decade, which have now grown to 138. In 2019, the federal government ...

While the annual average number of billion-dollar disasters between 1980 and 2023 is 8.5 events, the annual average from the past five years is 20.4 events per year, according to NOAA. The ...