These 26 pictures show the worst hurricanes that have hit the US through history. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was, and still is, the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States. The hurricane hit ...

Harris County Commissioner Leslie Briones has criticized President Trump’s plan to phase out FEMA after the 2025 hurricane season, citing its critical role in disaster relief and the ...

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special ...

HURRICANE MARIA Less than two weeks after areas in the Caribbean were hit by Hurricane Irma, Maria moved in as a Category 5 hurricane. It has caused devastation as it moved through the Caribbean.

Tropical storms and hurricanes that move slowly near the coast or inland are among the most feared by forecasters. Sometimes ...

An April report by a nonprofit environmental advocacy group named the Mississippi River as the most endangered in the United ...

A new report examines the growing financial and social costs of increasing hurricane risk, with special attention to areas of the U.S. that are not as prepared to weather these storms.

When a hurricane causes extreme damage or loss of life, its name is retired from future use out of respect and to avoid confusion. Storms like Katrina (2005), Harvey (2017) and Ian (2022) are no ...

"But now researchers are able to pinpoint the extent of damage from a specific extreme weather event such as Hurricane ... increase in Harvey's precipitation and the resulting flooding increase ...

the Memorial Day flood of 2015 caused damage, along with the Tax Day flood of 2016 and Hurricane Harvey one year later. “Harvey was the big one though,” said Tammy Haynes, the restaurant’s ...

is located near a subdivision in an unincorporated part of Harris County that has a long history of flooding. Residents in Houston suffered massive damage from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 but aren't ...