From tornadoes and hurricanes to wildfires and floods, weather and climate disasters cause billions of dollars in damage, on top of their steep human toll. Those costs could rise sharply in the years ...

Research by Climate Central shows that during 2025, there were 23 individual weather and climate disasters with at least $1 billion in damages. This was the third-highest count of billion-dollar ...

American homeowners have faced years of rising insurance costs, due in part to threats from climate change. But 2025 was a relatively quiet year for extreme weather disasters: wildfires and flooding ...

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 ...

Sam Crawley received funding from a MBIE Science Whitinga Postdoctoral Fellowship to support the survey research mentioned in this article. Anyone who has watched climate politics and coverage over ...