Weather News Trump Admin Ends Extreme Weather Database That Has Tracked Cost Of Disasters Since 1980

Trump ‘retired’ a database tracking the most expensive weather disasters. Now it’s back — and finding over $100B in losses

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at ... Read More

The federal government used to keep track of extreme weather disasters. Now it’s up to a nonprofit

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at ... Read More

A tool tracking billion dollar disasters is active again after being retired by Trump administration

After months of uncertainty over its future, an online resource for tracking the financial cost of weather and climate disasters throughout the United States has been revived. Read More

Scrapped by Trump, revived US climate-disaster database reveals record losses

A flagship US climate-disaster database killed by President Donald Trump's administration has been brought back to life by its former lead scientist -- revealing that extreme weather inflicted a ... Read More

Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it.

As the Trump administration deletes climate data and shutters resources that track the impacts of a warming world, nonprofits, state-level governments, and independent scientists are rushing to ... Read More

LA fires and 13 other disasters cost the US over $100 billion, estimates show

This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more than 100 countries and come close to New York City’s massive budget, the ... Read More