One of Russia's wealthiest men has been in the spotlight after prosecutors filed a lawsuit demanding around $50 million in compensation for one of the country's worst recent mining disasters. The case ...

Emergency response capability gaps may hinder federal efforts to prepare for no-notice catastrophic attacks such as major earthquakes and improvised nuclear device (IND) explosions, according to a ...

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina carved its place into American history — not just as one of the deadliest storms, but as a defining failure of emergency coordination. More than 1,300 lives were ...

Torrential rain began to fall in two Indonesian provinces on Monday, Sept. 8 At least 15 inches of rain fell in Bali, Indonesia and other areas, triggering flash flooding and landslides that ...

After historic flooding swept through Washington state in December, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Trump ...

Research collaboration: International Joint Laboratory on Catastrophic Disaster Simulation and Systemic Risk Response is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its ...

The recent devastating floods in Sumatra are the result of years of ecological destruction and failures in disaster governance.

A new study found that climate change has driven a surge of “societally disastrous” wildfires over the last four decades, with 43% of the most costly events occurring in the last 10 years. Reading ...