Editor’s note: In the wake of the devastating floods that have swept through Texas—claiming lives, displacing thousands and overwhelming local infrastructure—the urgency of disaster preparedness has ...

FEMA’s “abrupt change in policy is particularly harmful to local emergency management,” the judge stated.

The impacts of climate change, associated sea level rise and extreme weather are amplifying as a result of record greenhouse gas levels and combining with urbanization, environmental degradation and ...

The countries of the Central American region and the Dominican Republic are highly vulnerable and exposed to all types of natural hazards, which have intensified due to the effects of climate change.

FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

President Donald Trump at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Headquarters in August 2020. (DHS Photo by Benjamin Applebaum/Released) Mahatma Gandhi advised us to “Be the change that you ...

Rep. Judy Chu, D-Pasadena, is urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to change its handling of disaster assistance claims amid the ongoing fires in Southern California, after hearing from ...

During a tour of Hurricane Helene damage in Ashville, North Carolina, President Donald Trump said he plans an executive order to eliminate or overhaul the structure of the Federal Emergency Management ...

HOUSTON — At the first public hearing to investigate the deadly Hill Country flood Wednesday, the state’s top emergency management official took aim at the lack of standards required to coordinate an ...