"Twisters" is just the latest in a long line of epic disaster, action, and sci-fi movies that all manage to keep us on the ...

Organizations, regardless of size, should have a disaster recovery and business continuity plan. Such a plan helps IT pros create policies that address critical elements and processes that should ...

The Disaster Recovery Center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the next several weeks. Amid the parade of surreal images from the last few days, few have been stranger than this one ...

Big T trauma includes domestic violence, sexual assault, death, war, or a natural disaster. Most professionals also say that when it comes to trauma, it’s important to never compare traumas.

public policy effectively subsidized the development of disaster risk in what Davis calls the “firebelt suburbs” of California). Ecology should doom development in a place like the Santa ...

President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrive for a news conference at the White House on December 12, 2023, in Washington, DC [Andrew Harnik/AP] President Joe Biden is ...

“It’s not the same as ‘I’m going to go in with a shovel and clear out the mud from the flood,’” said Patricia McIlreavy, president and CEO of nonprofit Center for Disaster Philanthropy.

Estimates of the damages by insurers have risen as the disaster has worsened. New estimates from Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs put the potential losses for the insurance industry at $30 billion ...

deemed an oil spill in the Black Sea to be the "worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." Cleaning up the damage from the spill in Crimea's Kerch Strait could cost Russia $14 billion ...

These are securities that protect issuers, mostly insurers and governments, from severe losses in the event of a natural disaster by paying out when certain conditions are met. In fact ...

Sixty years of research at the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center and by others examining the social aspects of disaster has repeatedly shown effective disaster management ...