Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see "every star in the sky." It was early September 2005, a ...
IN THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AFTER DISASTROUS FLOODING ON THE 4TH OF JULY. UP TO 20IN OF RAIN FELL NEAR KERRVILLE, TEXAS. GUADALUPE RIVER ROSE 26FT IN JUST 45 MINUTES, OVERTAKING HOMES AND CAMPS, KILLING ...
NYU School of Global Public Health's Alexis Merdjanoff reflects on two decades of data about long-term resilience and how we can better support health and safety in the aftermath of the next storm ...
March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened in Japan. This major nuclear accident initially shook the international community of nuclear experts to its core. As ...
In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and ...
Forty years ago, on January 28, 1986, “exactly 73.621 seconds after liftoff at 11:39 a.m., the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all seven persons on board. With the destruction of Challenger ...
It is vital to share the lessons learned from major earthquakes and put them to use in mitigating future disasters. This year marks 10 years since the Kumamoto earthquakes. On April 14 and 16, 2016, ...