The Trump administration has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to former FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell about how the Department of Homeland Security shutdown will affect operations at the disaster relief agency.

A government shutdown or funding lapse usually doesn’t impede ongoing disaster recovery efforts, current and former federal officials say.

The Trump administration is proposing massive changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We asked disaster experts to weigh in.

Nature issues warning signals long before disaster strikes, and scientists track many of these patterns in weather and ...

Flood, storm and fire survivors gathered in Washington, D.C., Monday to express their alarm over a leaked report from the FEMA Review Council that proposes halving the agency’s workforce and scaling ...

Federal disaster spending has become one of Washington’s fastest-growing budget obligations. The next decade will test America’s ability to withstand stronger storms, rising temperatures and more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The monster storm that's threatening to dump snow across much of the U.S. could be a test of the Trump administration’s ...

Scientists can warn of a risk of floods days in advance. But forecasts often aren’t definitive enough to trigger action.