In Focus

Over the past 18 months the cost of construction materials has been volatile.

Hurricanes are associated in most people’s minds with powerful winds and the damage they can inflict.

Dry, hot conditions ravaged large parts of Canada throughout 2021—setting a new Canadian record.

Catastrophic flooding in the U.S., most recently Hurricane Ida–related, has dominated the news lately.

Hurricanes Katrina and Ida both made landfall in Louisiana on August 29, but 16 years and 40 miles apart.

About 3,800 towns and cities in the U.S. are on floodplains and many areas off them are still at risk.

September 11, 2001—9/11—is one of those dates so impactful that most people remember where they were.