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

As countries face increasingly steep bills from natural hazards, the true cost of disasters is actually 10 times higher than ...

Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as the planet ...

Just as Americans are entering what has been forecast to be a potentially worse-than-average Atlantic hurricane season ...

Immediate recovery efforts receive the most attention after severe natural disasters, yet new data from researchers at Drexel ...

The fact that only one person is missing after the huge glacier collapse that engulfed the Swiss mountain village of Blatten ...

Business management expert Peter Drucker said: “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” This is an axiom for business, engineering, science and more.

Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after David Richardson, the head of the US ...

During a press conference Tuesday, The UN World Food Programme (WFP) raised concerns about the humanitarian situation worsening in Haiti with the coming hurricane season. The WFP said that political ...

The Japanese government is to set up a database of registered food trucks that would provide hot meals in the event of natural disasters.