WASHINGTON ― There is an urgent need to reimagine disaster preparedness, mitigation, and recovery strategies in the U.S., as intensifying climate and weather hazards cause successive and compounding ...

Texas, Georgia and Illinois are the three worst states for natural disasters. Hawaii, Alaska and Maine are the three states with the fewest natural disasters. Natural disaster frequency and losses are ...

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

Stacking up the 2021 freeze to the snowfall in 2025 is an apples-to-oranges comparison. The first big difference is the size of the storms. In 2021, the cold weather impacted every single Texas county ...

A federal judge has ordered FEMA to reinstate $200 million in grants to improve climate vulnerabilities of infrastructure across North Carolina.

Karnataka aims to reduce natural disaster losses by 75% by 2030, implementing a comprehensive disaster-resilience roadmap.