Extreme climate makes it more difficult to detect hidden dangers. Heavy rainstorms or abrupt shifts between drought and flooding often trigger small-scale collapses and landslides. But the disasters ...

India's government has unveiled three major technology platforms, including satellite technology, as part of its new disaster ...

Extreme heavy rainfall has become more frequent due to global climate change, posing tremendous challenges to the prevention and control of geological disasters.

Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.) aims to introduce legislation this fall that would establish an agency to investigate deadly ...

This follows a period of harsh frost that stifled fruit and cereal growth in spring. The Turkish Statistical Institute ...

Disaster Risk Management Adaptation to climate change and disaster risk management provides a range of complementary approaches for managing the risks of climate extremes and disasters.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has never responded to deadly or damaging extreme heat. Environmental groups and labor unions are asking for that to change.

Extreme rainfall across swathes of China caused over 16 billion yuan ($2.24 billion) in road damage, the transport ministry ...

Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) has released a nineteen-second video of ARMstrong Dex – the human-scale, dual ...

Those challenges have gotten steeper under Trump: FEMA lost more than 2,400 active workers due to a mix of firings, ...

Extreme disasters costing more but killing fewer While the average cost isn't changing much, the most costly disasters are rising.