Fire Tracking App Used by Millions Expands to Help Monitor Dangerous Floods June 24, 2026 By Gabriela Aoun Angueira When a fire broke out a few miles from his Altadena, California, home the evening of Jan. 7, 2025, Matt...
Firefighters Warn They’re Ill-Prepared for a Bad Wildfire Season June 22, 2026 By Laura Millan Europe is facing another summer of intense wildfires, but firefighters who will be on the frontline warn that they’re entering...
El Nino Is Here and Scientists Fear It’ll Bring Costly Heat, Floods, Droughts, Fires June 15, 2026 By Seth Borenstein El Nino, Nature’s chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic...
Natural-Disaster Insurance Gap Now Exceeds $420 Billion Globally June 3, 2026 By Laura Millan The value of uninsured natural-catastrophe losses rose more than 7% globally last year to $424 billion, with North America the...
Viewpoint: How Climate Change Is Creating Uninsurable Areas Across Europe June 2, 2026 By Clotilde Cerdan Amiard As climate change makes extreme weather events more intense and frequent, “uninsurable areas” are becoming increasingly common. They are a...
Wildfire Season Returns to Canada’s Oil Sands June 1, 2026 By Amanda Stephenson Wildfire season has returned to Canada’s oil sands region, with seven active blazes in the area on Sunday raising risks...
Texas Storms Ground Flights, Threaten Floods and Spark Fires May 20, 2026 By Brian K. Sullivan A day of wild weather and thunderstorms in Texas has led to nearly 500 canceled flights in the Dallas area,...
Worst Start to Wildfire Season Raises Alarm as El Ni帽o Threatens May 12, 2026 By Joe Wertz Record-breaking heat and drought have fueled the world’s worst ever start to a wildfire year, as climate change and a...
Michigan Updates Air Quality Risk System Ahead of Wildfire Season April 17, 2026 By Brian Allnutt/Planet Detroit After Canadian wildfires brought extremely poor air quality to Detroit in the summers of 2023 and 2025, Michigan is updating...
Seven States in West Added to IBHS Expands Wildfire Prepared Program April 15, 2026 Seven new states in the Western U.S. are now part of a new wildfire preparedness designation program designed to help...