Natural Disasters

Efforts to limit wildfires in a conservative swath of northern Colorado are the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s on-and-off federal spending freeze

Court documents indicate the administration has begun a campaign to block states from receiving funds for projects that would reduce climate-related damage

The delivery of disaster aid is on the Government Accountability Office's High-Risk List for the first time as climate-related costs soar, Federal Emergency Management Agency staffing lags, and the Trump administration makes further cuts

The Trump administration’s moves to slash Forest Service personnel and pause wildfire-related grants have left states to pick up the pieces on prevention and mitigation

A powerful derecho last year caused more damage to Houston’s tallest buildings than Hurricane Beryl. Scientists wanted to know why

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s risk of hitting Earth is shifting with new data, astronomers say

After firing 200 first-year employees this weekend, FEMA was directed "to make a list" of anyone who worked on climate or equity

Physicists are finding new ways to model false vacuum decay, a terrifying, albeit remote, cosmic endgame

“Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll need to prepare for the worst

President Donald Trump’s sudden move to freeze federal grants is hitting states where people are struggling to recover from wildfires and hurricanes

Drivers for ride-hailing apps helped evacuate people during the recent wildfires in the Los Angeles area. But by classifying such workers as contractors, California’s Proposition 22 excludes them from state rules that require companies to protect employees from workplace exposure to smoke