Natural disasters have become some of the most expensive shocks to the U.S. economy, reshaping entire regions in a matter of ...

What warmer oceans do change, however, is the amount of energy available to any storm that does manage to form. When the ocean is warmer, cyclones have more fuel and evaporation increases, loading the ...

While no single event since Katrina has exceeded 1,800 deaths, heat waves now routinely rank as the deadliest type of weather ...