A high-level meeting of the Disaster Management Coordination Forum (DMCF) was held at National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) headquarters in Islamabad under the chairmanship of Lt. General Inam ...

The application provides early alerts on natural disasters and can be operated in 12 Indian languages to ensure that people are able to escape safely. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his ...

Felix Bigand and Giacomo Novembre from the Italian Institute of Technology in Rome, together with others, report on how the brain drives social coordination during dance. The researchers recruited ...

“You can’t prevent a natural disaster,” says Jerry Podany, the former head of antiquities conservation at the Getty Museum, who now works as a heritage-preservation consultant. “But you ...

Natural disasters are an unavoidable reality for everyone and are understandably scary for many. Even with modern technology giving people more time to prepare and resources to help, many fear for ...

More than 1.5 billion people will be affected by disasters by the year 2030, a top UAE crisis management official has warned, calling on global stakeholders to act urgently and collectively before ...

Mark Strassmann is CBS News' senior national correspondent based in Atlanta. He covers a wide range of stories, including space exploration. Strassmann is also the senior national correspondent ...

Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images Insurance prices around the world have skyrocketed as climate change worsens the damage caused by natural disasters, and rebuilding after a disaster becomes ...

Far from “natural,” disasters are inherently political. If they are even partially preventable, why didn’t those with the power to prevent them act in time — or at all? If common sense ...

People have always tried to make sense of the unthinkable. Is a fire such as we are experiencing in California just the way life is, or is it more than that? I think of the myth of the phoenix ...

The devastating wildfires still burning around Los Angeles threaten to upend the fragile balance between climate risk and home insurance in California. As house-demolishing storms and fires become ...

Jacob Soboroff, NBC News national correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about the sheer size of the task of recovery and rebuilding in the wake of the devastation from the Pacific Palisades and ...