Examples abound of animals appearing to predict natural disasters, with anecdotes dating back as far as Ancient Greece, when ...
An ad hoc committee will organize a 1.5-day public workshop to advance medical and public health research conducted during large-scale emergencies and disasters (“disaster science”) to benefit the ...
Resilience to disasters is not optional — it is essential to public safety, national security, economic prosperity and ...
When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...
Editor’s note: In the wake of the devastating floods that have swept through Texas—claiming lives, displacing thousands and overwhelming local infrastructure—the urgency of disaster preparedness has ...
THE P1-billion allocation for Project NOAH is, on its face, a welcome development. In a country battered annually by typhoons ...
From Himalayan cloudbursts and Punjab floods to cyclones on both coasts and relentless heatwaves, 2025 exposed India’s ...
On December 30, 2021, the Marshall Fire blazed through Boulder County. My parents, two brothers, two dogs, two cats, and I all piled into a car and evacuated our home in Superior, where I had lived ...
CLIMATEWIRE | Natural disasters and human conflict forced about 66 million people to flee within their own countries last year, and the United States led all nations with 11 million of these internal ...
Extreme weather is placing greater strain on Australia's power grids. In 2022, the record-breaking Northern Rivers floods blacked out almost 70,000 households. A powerful storm in 2024 cut electricity ...