All the headlines from our Natural Disasters Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 26 2025 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) has made some serious moves to tackle the state’s insurance crisis head on, last year launching its Sustainable Insurance Strategy (SIS). With the SIS came a set of...
Aug 26 2025 // Containment has increased on a rural California wine country wildfire that was burning out of control and threatening thousands of properties.The Pickett Fire exploded in the Napa Valley last week, prompting evacuations...
Aug 25 2025 // The Gulf Coast of the United States is increasingly vulnerable to hurricanes, a scientist has warned in a new study, 20 years after Katrina devastated New Orleans and hundreds of miles of coastline.Mark Bove, a...
Aug 25 2025 // Typhoon Kajiki made landfall along the northern part of Vietnam’s central coast on Monday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain that prompted a warning of possible flash floods and landslides across multiple...
Aug 22 2025 // Hurricane Erin is muddling computer models and making forecasters, analysts and traders question the accuracy of the outlook for heat, wind and storms across Europe next week.Erin, which churned through the Atlantic 330...
Aug 22 2025 // Volvo Launches Independent AgencyAuto manufacturer Volvo has launched an independent insurance agency offering not just car insurance for Volvos but also home and umbrella insurance. The Mahwah, New Jersey-based Volvo Car...
Aug 22 2025 // When Hurricane Helene barreled across several southern states last fall, it destroyed homes and killed more than 150 people. The storm also took out one of the country’s main factories producing intravenous fluid...
Aug 21 2025 // Hurricane Erin is triggering dangerous beach conditions across much of the US East Coast that will likely last into the weekend, as the storm pushes north in the waning days of the summer travel season.Erin is not...
Aug 20 2025 // A days-long heat wave rolling across parts of the US West is expected to ramp up wildfire risk, prompting California to pre-deploy crews as record-dry vegetation potentially acts as kindling for blazes.Temperatures in...
Aug 19 2025 // Missing an ear and his front legs detached, Brighty the Burro certainly has seen better days.The 600-pound (273-kilogram) bronze statue used to greet visitors at the Grand Canyon Lodge on the national park’s North...
Aug 19 2025 // Four major heat waves, dry conditions and strong winds have turned Europe into a tinderbox this summer, fueling the most destructive wildfire season in nearly two decades.Blazes have scorched about 8,948 square kilometers...
Aug 19 2025 // The toll of wildfires is usually counted in acres burnt, property destroyed and lives lost to smoke and flames. But three new studies suggest the cost to human health from the Maui and Los Angeles wildfires was...
Aug 18 2025 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) has made some serious moves to tackle the state’s insurance crisis head on, last year launching its Sustainable Insurance Strategy (SIS). With the SIS came a set of...
Aug 18 2025 // Hurricane Erin will likely become even larger as it churns past the Bahamas, avoiding land but raising the risk of high winds and flooding hundreds of miles away along North Carolina beaches.Erin’s top winds measured...
Aug 18 2025 // The Texas attorney general is investigating utility Xcel Energy Inc. and its contractor for two wildfires that devastated the state last year, saying the companies may have prioritized environmental and diversity goals...
Aug 15 2025 // The world may be about to shift into a La Niña weather pattern, a development that would increase the risk of storms in the Atlantic as the height of hurricane season approaches there.Forecasters at the US Climate...
Aug 13 2025 // Greek coastguard vessels evacuated tourists and locals, while a volunteer firefighter died in Spain as authorities struggled to quell blazes across the Mediterranean.A wildfire in Volissos forced evacuations from two...
Aug 13 2025 // Typhoon Podul blew through southern Taiwan on Wednesday packing winds of up to 191 kph (118 mph) and leaving one person missing, as a large swathe of the island shut down and hundreds of flights were canceled.Taiwan is...
Aug 12 2025 // As wildfires raged across Los Angeles in January, a state official parried an email from a resident living on the edge of the conflagration: When would long-delayed regulations designed to protect high-risk homes like hers...
Aug 12 2025 // Wildfires briefly shut the Dardanelles Strait to shipping on Monday, as extreme heat and strong winds fueled blazes across the Mediterranean.The Dardanelles — a vital maritime chokepoint for oil and gas from the Black...