Tim Keaton, Hazard Mitigation Planner with the West Virginia Emergency Management Division, served as host of the April 19 State Mitigation Planning Workshop in South Charleston, W.Va. The state ...

Cyclone Senyar was an unusually rare event for Sumatra, but the scale of destruction cannot be explained by weather alone. Decades of deforestation, mining, plantations, and peat drainage left ...

Last year, I discussed the historical cycle of disaster relief in this country since the 1980s. The pattern is consistent: When a Republican has been president, he screws everything up through ...

After catastrophic damage, how does a community rebuild? This an introduction to the disaster management cycle. Disaster 101: This is part of a series that looks at how communities recover from ...

As someone who lives in Western North Carolina, the past few weeks have been tough. Walking through Asheville and surrounding towns, it is heartbreaking to see what remains in the wake of Hurricane ...

McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In the past two decades, disasters have left a ...

India, Sept. 16 -- The monsoon is usually welcomed as a season of renewal, when parched fields drink deep and rivers run with fresh life. But this year, the rains turned into a roaring nightmare.