As built-up areas encroach on natural ones, we need new strategies for dealing with the impact of wildfires on buildings and ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants state and local officials to shoulder more of the burden of disaster response, even ...

Philip Bedient, a professor who studies flood models at Rice University, brought us to one of the county’s most recent undertakings, an enormous, man-made concrete canal full of water. It was recently ...

Surprisingly, no noticeable efforts have been made by most governments to prepare for either public enlightenment, cleaning up of the environment, re-evaluation of the state of dams, relocation or ...

Critics in the past year called for more transparency and vetting of the procedures used to estimate billion-dollar disasters ...

As the 2025 hurricane season has begun, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) reintroduced the Residential Emergency Asset Accumulation ...

California homeowners whose homes were destroyed in a recent natural disaster — including the San Diego floods in January ...

Get expert advice from the Greater Houston Builders Association on how to prepare your home and family for hurricane season ...

Better drainage and early warning would help curb losses from a future flood but Nigeria's adaptation plan hasn't been ...

At least one person died in rising floodwaters in Texas overnight, authorities said, as the Midwest and parts of the South were battered by storms, flooding and suspected tornadoes.

Your home may be at risk for flood damage even if you don’t live in a flood zone. As a result, skipping flood insurance could ...