Senators introduce a bill to restore NOAA's extreme weather database discontinued by the prior administration.

NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid ...

Authors from the American College of Physicians (ACP) warn that disaster looms ahead for the U.S. health care system, likely ...

OCD-9 Regional Director Atty. Ruel Halanes shares the office’s commitment to supporting science and technology innovations ...

Photo: Christian Martinez/Office of the Governor. As if predicting weather isn’t difficult enough, the Trump administration’s firing of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Natural disasters and human conflict forced about 66 million people to flee within their own countries last year, and the United States led all nations with 11 million of these internal ...

On 23 January 2020, reports became reality as the first COVID-19 case was detected in Australia. It was a grim foreshadowing ...

The western Himalayas— a region naturally vulnerable to rain-induced disasters—are facing the impact of climate change at an ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Objectives. This article provides an overview of how the interdisciplinary field of disaster studies contributes to the social sciences.