Swiss Re said the high losses were the result of disasters striking areas of large exposure and asset concentration.

RALEIGH — The Watauga High School Playmakers continue to earn praise and recognition for their play “Surge.” On Jan. 8, the ...

The French territory of Mayotte was battered by a new tropical storm Sunday, just weeks after the worst cyclone to hit the islands in nearly a century laid waste to entire neighborhoods and villages ...

Cyclone Dikeledi was moving away from the French territory of Mayotte on Sunday but the archipelago will remain under red ...

Over the past two decades, extreme weather events and record-breaking temperatures fueled by climate change have put more lives at risk. In the United States and around the world, hurricanes, ...

Residents still coping without power and heat were preparing Friday for a new winter storm as power line crews worked to get ...

The storm that battered Newfoundland over the weekend has left scars on parts of rural Newfoundland, including a northwest Trinity Bay community where one resident is worried it might never go back to ...

A fishing stage is the heart of any outport community, explained Pound Cove resident Dana Blackmore. It holds so many memories of lessons passed down from generation to generation. "The grandparents ...

As a hurricane approaches a coast, the churning winds force ocean water up onto land. Atmospheric pressure from the storm ...

Storm surges often are the most deadly and destructive phenomena to accompany a hurricane or tropical cyclone.

Over the last 20 years, large floods were associated with up to 24.9 percent higher death rates from major mortality causes in the U.S. compared to ...

The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing $450,000 (approximately 29 million meticais) to support emergency aid efforts in ...