September is National Preparedness Month, a great time to review your family's safety plan, assemble go bags and supplies, ...

A contractor cut down 107 trees in New Orleans that were planted by a nonprofit. Here's why it's emblematic of larger challenges in the fight against extreme heat.

As Climate Week kicks off in New York City, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala plans to meet ...

Names are retired if they are so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be inappropriate for reasons of ...

Hurricane Imelda upgraded from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane in the North Atlantic on Tuesday morning.

Connecticut and Red Cross officials say residents should be prepared for hurricanes, even as the season has had a low number ...

A New Orleans law aimed at boosting disaster planning at certain senior housing facilities has mixed results four years after the hurricane that prompted it. Passed about two months after Hurricane ...