[Photo: An aerial view of a house in Gilchrist, Texas, that survived the destruction of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. Courtesy of Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA.] Natural disasters are becoming more ...

Disasters are no longer rare, isolated shocks. They are an escalating development challenge. In 2024 alone, global economic losses from disasters reached record levels, with the poorest countries hit ...

Documents outline potential reductions to CORE and surge staffing, raising concerns about disaster response capacity ...

Internal agency emails and documents, as well as people familiar with the plans, suggest Noem is spearheading the drastic ...

A federal court has sided with 12 states that said the administration placed unreasonable limits on grants to pay emergency ...

The Trump administration is abruptly cutting dozens of disaster response and recovery staff at the Federal Emergency ...

John Scrivani, a longtime emergency management leader with decades of experience spanning local, state, and federal response ...

Pakistan has experienced devastating floods recently. In the wake of the disaster, researches, analysts, policy makers and general populace have tried to understand the causes of the unprecedented ...

A National Disaster Management Council is proposed to be established as the highest body responsible for coordinating disaster management and disaster ...

Under its ‘Rebuild Together’ initiative, a national effort launched following Cyclone Ditwah to aid recovery and reduce ...

In November 2007, the state of Tabasco suffered its worst flood in the past 50 years. A week of heavy rains and storms inundated the oil-rich state and more than one million people - approximately 50% ...