In 2018, after Hurricane Harvey destroyed Kema Ward-Hopper and Nicholas Hopper’s Houston home, a trip to Costa Rica became a permanent move.

Houston residents and officials are seething over a Texas agency’s decision to not award the city a single cent of the initial $1 billion in federal flood mitigation funding the state was promised following Hurricane Harvey in 2017

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo described multiple tragedies stemming from the historic Texas storms.

The link between climate change and hurricanes has become clear in recent years. Hurricanes Irma, Maria, Harvey, Michael and Florence are all examples. Those storms were stronger and wetter because of a warmer ocean. Florida gets hurricanes, but also a lot of sun. That’s why solar energy is becoming one of the most important tools in the fight against climate...

When he took the job 15 years ago, Horry County Emergency Manager Randy Webster figured his biggest disasters would be wind and surge rolling over his county’s beaches, South Carolina’s top tourist destination....
Instead, his worries have shifted inland, where rivers overflowing their banks have caused two massive floods in three years. “We’re getting into this sort of unknown territory,” Webster...

When it comes to their views on climate change, Americans are looking at natural disasters and their local weather, according to a new poll. Lately, that means record deadly wildfires in California, rainfall by the foot in Houston when Hurricane Harvey hit and the dome of smog over Salt Lake City that engineer Caleb Gregg steps into when he walks...

President Donald Trump on Monday rejected a central conclusion of a dire report on the economic costs of climate change released by his own administration. But economists said the National Climate Assessment’s warning of hundreds of billions of dollars a year in global warming costs is pretty much on the money. Just look at last year with Hurricanes Harvey, Maria...

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent in September — the lowest level since December 1969 — signaling how the longest streak of hiring on record has put millions of Americans back to work. Employers added just 134,000 jobs last month, the fewest in a year, the Labor Department said Friday. But that figure was likely depressed by the...

Both crews have been called to similar scenes across the country due to their ability to form and activate within hours – including being a part of recovery efforts during both Hurricane Harvey and Irma last year.

A federal report published Tuesday found that staff shortages and a lack of trained personnel slowed the U.S. government response to Hurricane Maria, a storm estimated to have killed nearly 3,000 people in Puerto Rico. The U.S. Government Accountability Office said 54 percent of federal emergency personnel were not qualified to do the rescue work in October 2017, a month...