T he Cold War's nuclear brinksmanship involved a strategy that demanded the United States and the U.S.S.R. be constantly prepared to launch nuclear weapons. The necessity for regular patrols of ...

Federal scientists will no longer update a list of weather disasters that cause billions of dollars in damage, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. The list had been ...

“I’d like to see the states take care of disasters,” he said in January. But red states are hit hardest by natural disasters like tornadoes. Star file photo Kansas burned in March. Wind ...

In the wake of recent natural disasters, state leaders across the country are finding that emergency support from the federal government is no longer a given. Under President Donald Trump ...

Washington state’s request to declare a November bomb-cyclone windstorm a “major disaster” was the first Trump denial to make headlines. State officials and the Federal Emergency Management ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday its well-known “billion-dollar weather and climate disasters” database “will be retired,” a move that will make it ...

On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the billion-dollar weather and climate disasters database will be retired. This directive came from the White ...

WASHINGTON — The new head of the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country warned staff in a meeting Friday not to try to impede upcoming changes, saying that “I ...

The web portal providing weather and climate disaster information since 1980 will be maintained only through last year, the agency said. One of NOAA’s most comprehensive climate disaster ...