Science Jan 10 Billion-dollar weather and climate disasters broke U.S. record in 2023, NOAA says While 2023 wasn’t the most expensive year overall, it had the highest number of billion-dollar storms, floods, droughts and fires of any year since counting began in 1980.
Nation Jan 11 Climate change helped fuel 18 billion-dollar disasters in 2022, NOAA says A monster hurricane, destructive storms and a drought that disrupted business across the economy led the list of the year’s costliest disasters.