Natural and man-made disasters threaten millions of people every year and cause billions of property damage. How much do we know about them? And how can we use that knowledge to save lives and money?

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 ...

Resilience to disasters is not optional — it is essential to public safety, national security, economic prosperity and ...

Editor’s note: In the wake of the devastating floods that have swept through Texas—claiming lives, displacing thousands and overwhelming local infrastructure—the urgency of disaster preparedness has ...

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 ...

Throughout history, there have been many anecdotes indicating that animals can predict natural disasters. In 1975, for ...

From Himalayan cloudbursts and Punjab floods to cyclones on both coasts and relentless heatwaves, 2025 exposed India’s growing climate risks. The year also showed why resilience—linking better ...

On December 30, 2021, the Marshall Fire blazed through Boulder County. My parents, two brothers, two dogs, two cats, and I all piled into a car and evacuated our home in Superior, where I had lived ...

The Trump administration’s steep staff cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) triggered shutdowns of several climate-related programs Thursday. Perhaps most notably, the ...

Extreme weather is placing greater strain on Australia's power grids. In 2022, the record-breaking Northern Rivers floods blacked out almost 70,000 households. A powerful storm in 2024 cut electricity ...

On the first Saturday in April, a Buffalo blizzard set the stage for a deadly traffic pileup resulting in serious injuries with the added risk of hypothermia. While a springtime snowstorm is nothing ...