How have scientists across Los Angeles used their skills to help their communities recover from the 2025 fires?

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

Enabling people to take more personal responsibility for their safety can reduce the risks posed by earthquakes and floods.

Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s.

Science cannot prevent all disasters or solve all the problems they spawn, but it can point to the best ways to prepare, making disasters less damaging than they might otherwise be ...

The “Katrina Declaration and Petition to Congress" calls out reductions to CERT, the National Fire Academy and hazard grants as weakening national disaster readiness ...

Ranked among the world’s most disaster-prone nations, the Philippines endures yearly threats from typhoons, earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions that disrupt millions of lives and livelihoods.

Writing in Slate, Joel Achenbach says this will be the century of disasters — both natural and technological. In this segment, Achenbach describes what he calls "black swan" events (rare but ...