Buildings and urban infrastructure are designed to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters, based on data from previous events. But how do you design a building to get through the extreme ...

Charred homes and burnt cars are pictured amid the rubble of the fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates in Los Angeles, California, on Jan. 13, 2025. Credit - Agustin Paullier—Getty Images ...

a damaged Florida home amidst debris after a hurricane - Chuyn/Getty Images One of the earliest known examples of humans documenting extreme climate events goes back about 3,500 years to the Bronze ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

How do extreme weather events and disasters affect communities long term? Solomon Hsiang discusses the impacts on economic growth and health, and how research can improve emergency management and ...

Engineering has built the most spectacular wonders of the modern world, but what happens when the technology that people trust their lives with fails? Premiering on HISTORY Saturday, April 11 at 10 PM ...

Stressing the urgent need to address the growing threat of climate-induced disasters, US-based environmental expert Subijoy Dutta has called for comprehensive scientific studies on extreme weather ...

Between 2011 and 2024, Connecticut experienced 11 climate disasters, based on the 11 federal disaster declarations that were made by the state during that time. A new map shows the breakdown of ...

In the aftermath of another summer of weather disasters, there were headlines about a “growing gap” between recovery efforts and preparation for climate change impacts. There were calls for a rethink ...

One of the earliest known examples of humans documenting extreme climate events goes back about 3,500 years to the Bronze Age, when a 40-line inscription carved into calcite detailed the abnormal ...