Cities, insurers, and the public used the Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database to plan for the future. So ...

The federal government is ending its tracking of billion-dollar weather disasters, a resource that documented 27 such events last year alone, as Lake Mead and other regions continue facing drought.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—which has been experiencing massive staff layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration—has announced it will stop tracking the cost ...

The agency said it will no longer track the cost of weather disasters, including hurricanes. Scientists say these events are worsening with climate change.