Never before has the insurance industry faced such big losses tied to floods, severe thunderstorms and wildfires, according ...

In the past few days, hundreds of bushfires have ignited in southeast Australia during an extreme heat wave. And communities ...

Learn how to deduct casualty and theft losses on your taxes effectively. Understand eligibility, criteria, and the filing ...

In a recent book, “Èkó,” the photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare captures the messiness and hope of the Nigerian city.

The year 2025 ends at midnight today, with a national debt of ?17.56 trillion, a population of 117,300,00 Filipinos and counting, more than one half of whom are very poor, with a nominal per capita ...

A rare polar vortex event could push Arctic air far south this winter, potentially exposing 250 million Americans across 40 states to extreme cold—a phenomenon last seen in 1958 and 1968.

To end the year, we looked back to the first half of 2025, when a series of deadly and destructive natural disasters slammed the commonwealth. This week's Sunday cover story focused on how Kentucky ...

WAYLAND, Ky. — Mayor Jerry Fultz steps out of his car and stands at the foot of the last road before the creek, where the specter of flooding is reshaping his hometown. A dog trots through fresh ...

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 ...

Global economic losses from natural disasters are projected to have dropped by 33 percent to $220 billion in 2025, despite the damage wrought by the Los Angeles wildfires, reinsurer Swiss Re said ...

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 ...

Cold weather fueled by the recent shift in the polar vortex is helping drive demand for natural gas, with prices recently soaring to their highest levels in three years. The U.S. Energy Information ...