A new study published in The Conversation reveals that hurricanes cost more than just the price of rebuilding. Groups who are displaced face a long road to recovery compounded by health complications. Two researchers at the University of Massachusetts in ...

Tornadoes, extreme floods and even a hurricane have disrupted Tennessee schools in recent years. Here's a closer look at the recovery process.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released a new tool to map the effects of natural disasters, even as federal agencies pull back on research about those events’ economic impact. The New York Fed launched a new data set and interactive map that tracks ...

The effects of natural disasters go well beyond casualties, property damage, and land and infrastructure losses. These events are causing mental health crises that can transform the most powerless among us. That’s the concerning takeaway from a Grist ...

This story was originally published by The Conversation. A week after Hurricane Sandy flooded New York City’s streets and subways in 2012, the city’s schools were back in business. But schools in rural North Carolina did not reopen until almost a month ...

Wildfires that destroyed 16,000 houses and other structures in Southern California. Floods in the Midwest and South that upended lives. Continued reconstruction in North Carolina following last year’s Hurricane Helene. As natural disasters become more ...

Thousands of homes and other structures are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of residents have been evacuated at various times. Many will not return for months, if ever. Homeless in an instant, they are now flooding the housing market, desperately ...

Keta (VR), May 21, GNA – The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in Keta Municipality of the Volta Region, has educated the public on the causes and effects of flood disasters. The NADMO emphasised that it was important to create awareness ...