Prepare, mitigate, respond, recover. It’s a cycle I have been through thousands of times. Navigating hundreds of disasters and crises ranging from small to seemingly impossible is all part of the job ...

Intervention to address disasters has evolved through time into a complex policy subsystem, and disaster policy is implemented through a set of functions known as emergency management and response.

Juliet is the senior web editor for StateTech and HealthTech magazines. In her six years as a journalist she has covered everything from aerospace to indie music reviews — but she is unfailingly ...

A new peer-reviewed article published in Big Earth Data highlights the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) in disaster management. The study ...

The countries of the Central American region and the Dominican Republic are highly vulnerable and exposed to all types of natural hazards, which have intensified due to the effects of climate change.

When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, 2025, Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated with bureaucratic ...

A worker in Thailand clears a road after a major flood. Disasters can threaten the infrastrucutre, investment climate, and human capital that jobs depend on. Photo credit: Adobe Stock At the World ...

As Hurricane Matthew bore down on the Atlantic Coast in October 2016, Mary Fashik was forced to leave her home in Brunswick, Georgia, for a communal shelter in Valdosta, about a two-hour drive inland.

In the face of increasing disasters, experts demand urgent reforms in South Africa's emergency procurement to enhance ...