Esther Jang, a graduate student at the University of Washington, pitches at a recent Urban Resilience Hackathon at the UW. (Chuck Wolfe Photo) Editor’s note: Chuck Wolfe participated in this hackathon ...

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a draft guide to help communities plan for and act to keep windstorms, floods, earthquakes, sea-level rise, ...

On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard, Captain Robert Salmond ordered the women and ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced a nearly $12 billion allocation of funding for 24 states and territories, seeking to find a path to ...

WASHINGTON — Federal agencies such as FEMA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and state and local agencies should proactively plan for community ...

Haunted houses may be less scary than losing your home to a natural disaster. Your scariest visitors tonight might be Samara from the Ring, Ghostface from Scream or The Black Phone’s Grabber, but the ...

IN a significant step toward strengthening climate and disaster resilience in the Philippines, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), in partnership with the United Nations Development ...

Ranked among the world’s most disaster-prone nations, the Philippines endures yearly threats from typhoons, earthquakes, ...

In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...

KENNEBUNK, Maine — The Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission has initiated the Southern Maine Energy Resilience Plan to help local businesses withstand power outages caused by severe ...