The Cabinet of Ministers on Monday approved a new science-based national strategy aimed at strengthening the country’s disaster resilience in the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah, which struck the country ...

The bill would create a national weather safety board to investigate deadly disasters and recommend changes for the future.

Floods, tornadoes, terrorist attacks—emergency responders navigate myriad disasters with increasing reliance on technology. Rochester Institute of Technology is educating the next generation of ...

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 ...

In a region frequently battered by typhoons, floods, and earthquakes, timely and reliable information access is essential for survival and development. To strengthen disaster preparedness, the ...

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 ...

A team has found that high resolution mass spectrometry could be a valuable tool for identifying and assessing air-borne contaminants produced by natural and human-made disasters. A team including ...

Photo: Christian Martinez/Office of the Governor. As if predicting weather isn’t difficult enough, the Trump administration’s firing of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

The Center for Geographic Information Science and Technology conducts a wide varietry of research related to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster Research. See Dr. Tomaszewski's book ...

Immediate recovery efforts receive the most attention after severe natural disasters, yet new data from researchers at Drexel University and the University of Maryland suggests these climate events ...