The rapid outbreak of COVID-19 has prompted an unprecedented response from all levels of government, across the country and around the world. As part of this response, local, state, and federal ...

Prepping for disaster recovery needs a plan, testing, and thinking about non-technical necessities like food and shelter for the recovery team. (A hurricane devastated an island that held two data ...

Heather Kelly, SR530 long-term recovery lead for the Snohomish County, Wash., Executive’s Office, provided me with their lessons learned to-date from the Oso mudslide. This event happened on March 22, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University will lead research to determine why some communities recover from natural disasters more quickly than others, an effort aimed at addressing the nation's ...

It was around this time 15 years ago that University of Delaware Assistant Professor Jennifer Trivedi was calling people she knew in Biloxi, Mississippi to see if they were evacuating the coast as ...

Congress and the Biden administration must take a different route as they seek a more equitable recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. As many warned early on, the pandemic economic collapse is worsening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combination of photos shows areas affected by the earthquake-triggered tsunami which hit Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh ...

As governments around the world grapple with the public health and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are striking similarities with the eurozone crisis that followed the 2008 financial ...