In the past decade after the devastated 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan, academics and students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have been working on a series of ...

Project Impact, a short-lived federal initiative that worked to create disaster-resistant communities, showed that teamwork by different government levels and the private and nonprofit sectors can do ...

On November 9 2020, the Africa Unit of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and ICCROM experts met online to develop a project that will contribute to capacity-building in disaster risk management and ...

Project 2025 outlines changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including reducing the federal government’s share of local disaster relief contributions from 75% to 25%, privatizing flood ...

Ted Lemoi stands outside a FEMA disaster relief recovery center in Cumberland, R.I., after receiving a $810 grant and a $27,000 loan from the small business association to repair is flood damaged home ...

Climate change exacerbates the severity of natural disasters, which disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. Mitigating disasters’ health consequences is critical to promoting health equity, ...

Australia’s largest discrete Indigenous community will receive a $14m cyclone shelter to aid response efforts during extreme ...

This post is part of “Inside Project 2025,” an ongoing series on MSNBC’s “Velshi.” Each week, host Ali Velshi dives deep into some of the most outrageous proposals from The Heritage Foundation’s ...

AS the country reeled from successive typhoons, Project NOAH (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards) continued to ...

Mexico won’t pay for President Trump’s border wall. But Northern Californians might. Many of them live near the American River, one of the country’s most flood-prone urban watersheds. Houston ...

The Australian government has allocated $200 million for 96 projects related to disaster management in all states and territories. This funding, part of round three of the $1 billion Disaster Ready ...

The White House and Eisenhower Executive Office Building in October 2021. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) The White House has revealed details of two governmentwide technology projects focused on ...