This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” When a major storm blows through town, local, state, and tribal governments rely on federal funding to help ...

Meteorologist Kristen Currie spoke with Dr. Lori Peek, a Sociology Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to get ...

Economist Jonathan Colmer and his UVA team created a tool to deliver lifesaving insights on who’s most likely to suffer in ...

The National Weather Service says flood fatalities have gone up. There were 145 last year, compared to the 25-year average of ...

Natural disasters, including earthquakes, cyclones, floods, and wildfires, cause significant environmental damage and have emerged as a major global issue. These events can result in loss of life and ...

Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are ...