Even if we can’t control the weather, we can control our response. In the midst of hurricane season, we wanted to reflect on how, when businesses and nonprofits partner together, they can have ...
USAID was shut down in July by the Trump administration. The State Department says that the shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development -- the world's largest agency tasked ...
Hurricane Harvey Isn’t a “Natural” Disaster. Politics Created the Chaos Weather and climate don’t cause disasters—vulnerability does. Perhaps counter-intuitively, this means that the widespread ...
Correction & clarification: A prior version of this story misstated the depreciated value of old mobile homes. LINDEN, N.J. − Javier Velez has been homeless ever since Hurricane Ian blew the roof off ...
The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research is an interdisciplinary research center in which environmental engineers, environmental health scientists, philosophers, and other groups work ...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is convening a virtual public workshop focused on the needs of children and youth in disasters. The aims of this workshop are to explore ...
Over the past decade, the Government of Jamaica has worked closely with the World Bank to build fiscal buffers and invest in financial instruments designed to respond to disasters of varying frequency ...
Major disasters including tornadoes, extreme flash floods and even a hurricane have disrupted Tennessee schools in recent years. More than a dozen people, including teachers, students and parents, ...
Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025. But to see this as ...