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The now-retired database documented 27 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the United States last year alone.
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database, since its launch in 1980, has tracked the economic impacts of ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently announced that it would stop tracking the cost of the ...
Staring down another above-average hurricane season, America’s weather forecasting and disaster response agencies are more ...
It will be harder to know the cost of the most extreme weather disasters, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it will stop monitoring billion-dollar disasters in the ...
Climate change’s stamp is evident in many of the fires, scientists say, primarily because hotter air means drier plants, which burn more readily. Over the past century, California has warmed by ...
Cities, insurers, and the public used the Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database to plan for the future. Now ...
President Donald Trump’s administration is on a crusade against efforts to grapple with climate change ... A NOAA spokesperson said it is “actively enhancing disaster readiness and lifesaving ...