California Governor Gavin Newsom is asking Congress for nearly $40 billion in disaster funding to help Los Angeles recover ...

Climate change is causing more frequent and devastating natural disasters. The goal of this paper is two-fold. First, it examines the dynamic effects of natural disasters on the growth of output and ...

Himachal Pradesh is likely to be first in India to include climate change index in UNDP's Human Development Report. Amee ...

For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction standards that help houses survive hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes. Now, ...

"One record-breaking high after another." New report reveals skyrocketing economic losses from natural catastrophes: 'The ...

The crash and overturning of a Delta Air Lines jet during landing in Toronto is the fourth aviation disaster in North America ...

China floods to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, these are the world's deadliest natural disasters—and the details are not for the faint of heart.

President Donald Trump's suggestion about “getting rid of” the nation's disaster relief agency doesn't sound like a bad idea ...

In 2011, UNESCO member states declared World Radio Day, and in 2012, the United Nations General Assembly recognized it officially. Since then, February 13 has marked World Radio Day, celebrating radio ...

Countries around the world have experienced an uptick in natural disasters and home insurance costs, but each country has ...

Bhutan’s crisis preparedness efforts are improving but still face significant gaps, as revealed in the Bhutan Crisis Preparedness Gap Analysis, Technical Report. The country’s vulnerability to natural ...