The interior designer and his longtime partner, acclaimed photographer, Fernando Bengoechea, were vacationing together in Sri ...

Scientists say this mega-disaster could strike with little or no warning at all. It has the power to devastate millions in ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved disaster loans for Honolulu residents and businesses following last month's tsunami.

As an integral part of the “build back better” approach, authorities must include strategies for the environmentally and ...

One of the reopened waterfronts is Haragamaobama beach in Fukushima prefecture, about 40 kilometres north of the crippled Daiichi nuclear plant. Local officials in Fukushima said they hoped the ...

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If your home was destroyed by a sudden disaster that you couldn't control, you would hope that at the very least, your insurance would cover your losses. However, disaster risk financing systems are ...

Emergency management officials provide scenario, encourage preparedness ...

Addie Guttag knew very little about American Jewish World Service when she donated $10,000 to the organization in the wake of the Asian tsunamis. But three years later, Ms. Guttag, who works as a ...