RALEIGH, N.C. -- Elsa strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season on Friday as it battered the eastern Caribbean, where officials closed schools, businesses and airports under the ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response ...

A paper authored by University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) graduate student Zeb Leffler has been published in the ...

Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on August 29, 2021, and reached the Northeast on September 1. During Ida, the ...

An intensifying Melissa is expected to bring destructive flooding to Jamaica, southern Haiti and the Dominican Republic before tracking toward Cuba next week.