Natural disasters affect many parts of the world, but few countries experience them as frequently and as intensely as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oregon state Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, has been introducing legislation to modernize the state’s emergency preparedness and response processes for years. He called the state’s tsunami warnings last ...

GENEVA - The UN refugee agency today announced a six-month, $75 million appeal to provide shelter, non-food aid and logistical support for hundreds of thousands of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami ...

GENEVA, Jan. 7 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency, already taking an uprecedented role in natural disaster relief, today announced a six-month $75 million appeal to provide shelter, non-food aid and ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...