From severe storms to tornadoes, natural disaster statistics reveal that disasters are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity. Over the past five years, the U.S. has experienced an ...

Hours after an Atlantic hurricane came for Appalachia, many residents of rolling, tree-lined western Asheville, North Carolina, had nothing to do and nowhere to go. More than 1,000 roads were closed, ...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Alice Hill, a senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council ...

As COVID-19 first broke in March 2020 and California wildfires raged, one thing became clear: The field of psychiatry needed a new way of thinking about and responding to complicated, overlapping ...

Last year was the third-highest year on record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, according to new data from Climate Central. There were 23 such events in 2025, causing 276 fatalities ...