Natural Disasters

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

The Los Angeles area is expecting rain increasing the risk of debris slides in the wildfire-scarred landscape

Decades of warnings went ignored about the threats from climate change. With homes everywhere now burning, flooding and washing away, it’s time we start listening to scientists’ climate solutions

Climate disasters such as the recent Los Angeles–area fires are making it harder to prepare for more climate disasters

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could pose problems for long-distance space travel

Many factors, such as strong Santa Ana winds and urban planning decisions, played into the recent destructive wildfires in the Los Angeles area. But the evidence is clear that climate change contributed

Wildfires like the Los Angeles blazes destroy so much, but they often spare some evidence of the cause of their ignition