A tropical storm may form this week, bringing risks of flash flooding and strong thunderstorms from Florida to Louisiana.

Pete Jensen has spent a long career in emergency management, including responding to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack. He served as an official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency during ...

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

The air above the Gulf can today hold around 10% more moisture than typically. This is the equivalent of over a million Olympic-sized pools’ worth of additional water vapor floating around in the air, ...