The Compounding Disasters Study Committee and NASEM staff will convene a virtual panel of community stakeholders to discuss their personal experiences preparing for and recovering from disasters that.
In the first nine months of 2021, the U.S. has already faced 18 disasters that have cost more than $1 billion each, according to a report from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
2021 ended as it began: with disaster. Twelve months after an atmospheric river deluged California, triggering mudslides in burned landscapes and leaving a half-million people without power, a ...
From winter storms to wildfires, extreme weather took its toll on the United States in 2021. Last year, a whopping 20 different weather and climate disaster events caused losses exceeding $1 billion ...
This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. As we wind down the last ...
Five years ago this week, Texas was in the grip of a catastrophe that reshaped the state's energy policy, exposed vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and left lasting scars on millions of ...
This consensus study will examine the impacts of multiple, compounding disasters that occurred across the Gulf region from 2020-2021 and provide findings on what factors enabled or could enable ...