Discover 25 tiny scientific mistakes that became massive disasters. Explore how small errors in space and engineering led to ...

Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, landslides, wildfires and droughts are increasing in frequency and intensity, in large part because of climate change (M. Coronese et al. Proc ...

Natural disasters are devastating events that have the potential to cause huge amounts of damage and loss of life. Globally, around 60,000 people die each year as a result of disasters such as ...

AI may improve natural disaster prediction through faster data analysis, early warning systems, and machine learning support.

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 ...

From tropical storms to wildfires, climate disasters aren’t confined to the places we’re used to seeing them. From tropical storms to wildfires, climate disasters aren’t confined to the places we’re ...

The Louisiana wildfire that upended Katie Henderson’s life was barely a blip on this year’s string of catastrophes. On August 24, just after she’d brought her 7-year-old son home from school, she ...

President Trump has said that he wants to phase out FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and move responsibility for dealing with major disasters to the state level. Since its creation in ...