Chemical disasters can be devastating to local economies. Just ask West Virginia businesses whose economy lost $19 million per day after the Elk River spill in 2015. The EPA is now updating rules on ...

Along with death and taxes, natural disasters seem to have to become another unpleasant certainty these days. While losses from natural disasters are increasing, insurance costs are ballooning and ...

The Public Utilities Commission approved hundreds of millions in spending for NV Energy’s natural disaster prevention and continued to allow a controversial cost recovery method that has Southern ...

Imagining a disaster is scary. Contemplating death, disruption, and devastation can adversely affect our mental health. How could disaster game psychology make stopping disasters fun, effective, and ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Like many NV Energy customers, Las Vegas senior Ann Marie Cittadino has seen her power bill recently increase. “From the last year, it went up 20 percent,” Cittadino said. Cittadino ...

The Division for the Advancement of Women is organizing, in collaboration with the Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), an Expert Group Meeting on "Environmental ...

Since 2017, eight of the largest wildfires in California’s history have occurred. Not only are these fires getting bigger, but they’re also affecting more properties. Losses due to wildfire added up ...

Preliminary data from the Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention showed that as of Oct. 5, Typhoon Bualoi and its remnants caused an estimated VND18.8 trillion (US$713.3 million ...