A climate nonprofit has taken up the helm of NOAA's recently retired Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database, tracking the most expensive and devastating weather and climate disasters.

Senate Democrats are seeking to revive a database that had tracked billion-dollar climate and weather disasters for decades until the Trump administration retired it in May. The National Oceanic and ...

A climate nonprofit is planning to revive a key federal database tracking billion-dollar weather disasters that the Trump administration formally stopped updating in May. The database - which was ...

The L.A. wildfires in January 2025 caused $60 billion in damages. The L.A. wildfires in January 2025 caused $60 billion in damages. AGUSTIN PAULLIER/AFP—Getty Images Editor at Large Every natural ...

Every natural disaster presents a bill when it's done. Hurricane Katrina, which inundated the Gulf States in 2005, did $201.3 billion worth of damage. Superstorm Sandy, which hit the northeast in 2012 ...