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 ...

Residents try to put out flames as a wildfire threatens homes in Quito, Ecuador, in September 2024. AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire ...

One year ago, Los Angeles experienced one of the most destructive urban wildfire disasters in its history. The fires consumed more than 55,000 acres, destroyed nearly 16,000 homes, and claimed ...

Wildfire disasters worldwide are growing notably in frequency and cost, according to a new study, with nearly half of the most damaging events over the last 44 years occurring in just the past decade, ...

The California Assembly this week called on President Donald Trump and Congress to send $34 billion in supplemental disaster ...

A recent CounterPunch article by Faith Kearns argued that municipal watersheds should be “thinned” or logged to reduce wildfire risk, citing California’s Tubbs and Camp Fires, Oregon’s Almeda Fire, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles wildfires passes, rebuilding efforts continue to lag despite assurances to the ...

Disasters such as wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent occurrences, leaving homeowners scrambling for ways to proactively protect themselves and recover financially. Traditional insurance ...

Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire ...

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering; Senior Fellow at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Boise State University Mojtaba Sadegh receives funding from the US ...