In Washington, there’s a persistent myth that investing in disaster mitigation means choosing between environmental ...

Along with death and taxes, natural disasters seem to have to become another unpleasant certainty these days. While losses from natural disasters are increasing, insurance costs are ballooning and ...

Imagining a disaster is scary. Contemplating death, disruption, and devastation can adversely affect our mental health. How could disaster game psychology make stopping disasters fun, effective, and ...

The Public Utilities Commission approved hundreds of millions in spending for NV Energy’s natural disaster prevention and continued to allow a controversial cost recovery method that has Southern ...

The Division for the Advancement of Women is organizing, in collaboration with the Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), an Expert Group Meeting on "Environmental ...

Since 2017, eight of the largest wildfires in California’s history have occurred. Not only are these fires getting bigger, but they’re also affecting more properties. Losses due to wildfire added up ...

BEIJING, Aug 29 (Reuters) - China's top leaders called for greater efforts to enhance work safety and natural disaster prevention, according to the readout of a meeting of the Politburo on Friday. The ...