For decades, the database tracked hundreds of major events across the country, including devastating hurricanes, hailstorms, droughts and freezes.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that it will no longer track the cost of weather disasters triggered by climate change, such as floods, heatwaves, wildfires and more.
The decision stands out as the latest example of cuts to federal resources related to climate change and of changes made to agencies under the Donald Trump administration.
NOAA, which is part of the Department of Commerce, carries out tasks such as daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring. It is also the agency under which the National Weather Service operates.
NOAA announced that its National Centers for Environmental Information will stop updating the 'Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters' database after 2024, and that the data going back to 1980 will only be archived.
