Natural Disasters

With voting underway, election officials in flood-ravaged North Carolina must mail new ballots and replace destroyed polling places after Hurricane Helene

Experts say the effects of global warming are playing a greater role in where people decide to move

A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives, and calls for voters to head off future disasters

People living near industrial facilities often have few details about the chemicals inside, which poses major risks when floods occur

Only 2 percent of households in parts of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina that were flooded by Hurricane Helene can get insurance payments

Sooner or later a doomsday asteroid will wipe out most life on Earth—unless, that is, we prevent threatening space rocks from hitting us in the first place

Hurricane Helene forced dozens of medical facilities across the southern U.S. to evacuate patients, underscoring the human costs of climate change

The average tropical cyclone in the U.S. ultimately causes about 7,000 to 11,000 excess deaths, new research finds

The conservative Project 2025 playbook for a possible Trump presidency calls for cutting aid for disasters such as Hurricane Helene

Inland flooding from tropical cyclones, even at high altitudes, is a major worry—and one that scientists don’t know enough about

Hurricane Helene fueled catastrophic flooding from Florida to Appalachia, leaving millions without power

On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Central Europe and North Carolina have both been drenched by torrential rains