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

Just as we wouldn’t build in seismically active regions like Vancouver, Victoria or San Francisco without accounting for earthquake risk, or in flood-prone areas like Winnipeg or New Orleans ...

A massive quake might drop the Pacific Northwest coastline by 6 feet, redrawing flood maps and putting thousands of homes at risk.

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...

The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged USD 70–80billion a year ...

Natural hazard” and “natural disaster” aren’t the same. Hazards are events. Disasters are their consequences, shaped by human choices and vulnerabilities. Misusing the terms blurs accountability, ...

Orihuela Council has released a detailed guide equipping residents on how to handle emergency situations such as fires, ...

Natural disasters cause India losses of up to 2% of GDP annually, yet insurance coverage remains low. The recent storms in ...

Kerre Woodham discusses increased home insurance prices across New Zealand instead of higher prices in disaster-prone areas ...

The Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority (HPSDMA), in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), conducted the 9th statewide mega mock exercise on earthquake ...

TAWANG, 11 Jun: A large-scale joint civil-military mock drill on disaster preparedness was conducted at Mhentsang Rong ...