In Wrightwood, a 5,000-resident mountain town about 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, residents are dealing with the aftermath of severe flooding, including cars buried up to their windows in rocks, ...

An AI analysis of Google Street View images across 16 states shows that damaged buildings in poorer communities often remain vacant for years, while wealthier areas rebuild faster and better. After a ...

Cyclone Senyar was an unusually rare event for Sumatra, but the scale of destruction cannot be explained by weather alone. Decades of deforestation, mining, plantations, and peat drainage left ...

Part 1 walked through the SDRP components that rely on familiar records, crop insurance and Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) data, where producers have a clearer sense of how their ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - Over half of Maine’s counties have been designated as Primary Natural Disaster Areas due to the drought, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. This ...

WASHINGTON — A new nationwide survey is out, highlighting the natural disasters Americans fear the most, and some of the results were not surprising. Here’s what the study by Talker Research survey ...

Kentucky state Sen. Robin Webb held up a thick black binder stuffed full of white paper. The binder, which she hefted in the air during a Nov. 21 meeting in Frankfort, contained the many ...

University of Oklahoma researchers want to better understand the relationships between residents and their local government’s response to natural disasters through a survey of Norman residents and the ...

Artificial intelligence is gradually enabling more accurate forecasts of storms, fires and other events. AI models like Google's GraphCast outperformed traditional forecasts, aiding in predicting ...

PHOENIX — Natural disasters are having a significant impact on the nation's food supply, as farmers lose millions of dollars in crops each year due to Mother Nature's force. In Arizona, the expected ...