A string of natural disasters and global conflicts, combined with drastic cuts to international aid means that some of the ...

As his team searched for survivors, he wondered what could have happened if the gutting of the US Agency for International ...

Natural disasters such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, and extreme heat have become more frequent, with higher economic costs, due to climate change, urbanization, population growth and growing ...

Officials in Texas are under scrutiny for a string of refusals to fund early warning systems for flash floods in an area where sudden, intense rainfall is frequent. Those measures could have included ...

Each day of war risks a strike on sites that could scatter radioactive material. Officials say one laboratory near the front ...

International Day for Disaster Reduction promotes a global culture of risk awareness and disaster reduction by celebrating how people around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters. This ...