2021 ended as it began: with disaster. Twelve months after an atmospheric river deluged California, triggering mudslides in burned landscapes and leaving a half-million people without power, a ...

WASHINGTON ― There is an urgent need to reimagine disaster preparedness, mitigation, and recovery strategies in the U.S., as intensifying climate and weather hazards cause successive and compounding ...

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

The massive heat dome that struck the Pacific Northwest in 2021 paralyzed the region. Emergency departments were overwhelmed. Roads buckled in the heat. Hundreds of people died. That same year, ...

AFBF’s Market Intel team has created a series highlighting agricultural losses incurred due to weather disasters and the disaster assistance programs meant to help mitigate their impacts. Previous ...

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Local strong winds, such as tornadoes and downbursts, are rarely captured in measured wind speed data due to their rapid formation and immense destructive power. As a result, post-disaster ...