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 ...

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 ...

Seven years ago, Matthew Marchetti worried about his neighbors in the Memorial area as the rainfall from Hurricane Harvey overwhelmed Houston's emergency services. Marchetti and his friends had two ...

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 ...