Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

The bill would create a national weather safety board to investigate deadly disasters and recommend changes for the future. It would be styled after the National Transportation Safety Board.

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

Warning systems can engage people on a personal level — if they are built in a way that bridges technology and social science.

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

Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire ...

Landslides can cause devastating damage and can harm and kill people. These disasters arise from a variety of conditions all around the world, making them hard to predict and prepare for. Kamal Rana, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) highlighted the importance of establishing science-based disaster resilience solutions in Visayas during the opening ceremony of the ...

Climate disasters inflict outsized harm on pregnant and young families The howling winds of a tornado jolted Jelessica Monard awake in the early morning hours last fall. She was five months pregnant ...