2021’s biggest climate and weather disasters cost the U.S. $145 billion – here's what climate science says about them in 5 essential reads
- Written by Stacy Morford, Environment + Climate Editor
Residents had to be rescued as Hurricane Ida flooded coastal Louisiana in August 2021.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty ImagesThe disasters just kept coming in 2021, from Hurricane Ida’s destruction across Louisiana and the Northeast to devastating wildfires in the West and damaging storms, tornadoes and floods. Nearly half the U.S. was in...
