Hernando County will discuss its Vulnerability Assessment on September 22, 2025, to evaluate emergency preparedness and ...

Storm damage in Berlin Township, Ohio, from a derecho that moved through the region on June 13, 2022. This derecho is one of nine billion-dollar disasters to strike the U.S. so far in 2022. (Neil ...

The Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, reminded the world that nuclear power plant accidents like the Chernobyl and ...

September is National Preparedness Month, which aims to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for emergencies.

A rescuer looks for bodies in a destroyed area after flooding and mudslides, caused by heavy rains leading several rivers to overflow, pushing sediment and rocks into buildings and roads, in Mocoa, ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun 2013) (13 pages) ABSTRACT. The extent to which education provides protection in the face of a large-scale natural disaster is investigated. Using longitudinal ...

2023 FEB 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Fresh data on remote sensing are presented in a new report. According to news reporting from Beijing, People’s ...

Over the next few decades, climate change will pose new threats around the world. Researchers from Climate Analytics (Berlin) and Radboud University's Global Data Lab (GDL) have developed long-term ...

A newly published research study by U.S. Forest Service researchers demonstrates that the social vulnerability indices used in climate change and natural hazards research can also be used in other ...

This study is an attempt to empirically determine and analyse the factors that significantly influence the perceptions of and vulnerability to an earthquake disaster that struck a community located in ...