National weather analysts released their 2023 billion-dollar disasters list on Jan. 9, just as 2024 was getting off to a ferocious start. A blizzard was sweeping across across the Plains and Midwest, ...

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. It's the first time in ...

Earth was besieged by 39 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2018, the fourth-highest inflation-adjusted number of billion-dollar weather events on record, said insurance broker Aon (formerly called ...

A project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) has enabled researchers to simulate Earthly disasters with an unprecedented level of detail. Referred to as Earth’s “digital twin,” the model is ...

The Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) has recently deployed a new communications system, based on NASA technology, that is designed to aid emergency management professionals when natural or ...

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria and Jose. Wildfires driven by Diablo Winds. The Mexico City Earthquake. The summer and fall of 2017 have seen a continuous string of disasters, the likes of which we ...

Google has announced a big step toward smarter disaster protection with its latest Earth AI update. The tech giant has integrated its powerful Gemini AI with years of global satellite, weather, and ...

Earth set a new record for billion-dollar weather disasters in 2013 with 41, said insurance broker Aon Benfield in their Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report issued this week. Despite the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Just in time for Earth Day: A new NASA website shows how the agency's Earth observation data ...

The International Space Station (ISS) partner agencies released a statement Wednesday on the benefits of the space station during natural disasters on Earth. Flying 250 miles above the planet and ...

The eight-legged micro-animal called a tardigrade could survive nearly all the way until the death of the sun, a new study suggests — long after humans are history. The study, from Harvard and Oxford ...