A natural disaster occurring in your destination while abroad is one of the most terrifying things many travelers can imagine ...

More and more people are building their homes in woodland settings in or near forests, rural areas, or remote mountain sites. As residential areas expand into relatively untouched wildlands, these ...

California’s 2020 wildfire season was particularly savage. By the end of that year, about 4% of California’s landmass, some 4.3 million acres, had gone up in smoke from nearly 10,000 wildfires that ...

Explosions can inflict multi-system life-threatening injuries to many persons simultaneously. Multiple factors contribute to the injury patterns which result from blasts. Contributing factors include ...

As my L.A. County Fire partner and I were trying to get ahead of the flames, we drove up a narrow road into a canyon neighborhood above the endless sea of homes in the flat valley below. Appropriately ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation What is the impact of climate change on inflation and growth dynamics? This is not a simple question to answer as climate ...

Over the past 40 years, the financial losses caused by biological invasions have been equivalent to those caused by various types of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods or storms; however, ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Nearly 50 tornadoes and some fatal moved through the Eastern U.S., even here in Maryland, just over a week ago. With severe storms rolling through the area, it is always best to be ...