Kentucky State University researchers are looking at the impact of severe weather events and how the commonwealth can invest in resiliency versus recovery.

Recognizing its high exposure to hurricanes and climate-related disasters, Jamaica developed a multilayered disaster risk financing system designed to provide rapid liquidity when disasters occur.

Current events lead us to believe the world is in a free-fall. As uncertain as it may seem, the field of disaster psychology ...

LARGO, Fla. — Pinellas County opened a one-stop disaster recovery center in Largo Monday to assist people impacted by the last two major storms. The disaster recovery center is located at the Florida ...

Emergency management has long centered on four essential pillars: preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation.

Climate change remains a great challenge to rural livelihoods in Sierra Leone, especially in agricultural communities that depend on climate-sensitive resources. Although indigenous knowledge has been ...

Carbon farming has appeared as a potential revenue source, raising farm incomes, strengthening climate resilience, and ...

In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and ...

A remote-controlled robot has pulled the first sample of melted nuclear fuel from inside the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi power plant, a small but significant step in what remains the most difficult ...

Okuma is the closest town to the three nuclear reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant on March 11, 2011. On that day, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami destroyed the ...

Four-legged robots that scramble up stairs, stride over rubble, and stream inspection data — no preorder, no lab coat required.