America has always been a nation made and remade by disasters. The ones you know about are just the tip of the iceberg. Under the surface are the events that made lawmakers rewrite the rules, forced ...

It's been 14 years since a disaster caused the collapse of the city's dumpsite, but the local government has yet to build its own engineered sanitary landfill ...

Public works departments and the design and construction firms that work for them already see fallout from the suspension of FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

Rice University and Lehigh University have announced the launch of the Consortium for Enhancing Resilience and Catastrophe ...

Massive structural damage in the wake of disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, landslides, and wildfires can make recovering ...

An extraordinary property built with "7,300 cubic yards of super-reinforced concrete" has hit the market in Malibu.

A groundbreaking tool from Texas A&M University is giving emergency crews a powerful new way to assess damage faster than ...

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Mia Palacio felt like she lost a piece of herself when wildfires destroyed her hometown of Lahaina. She isolated from loved ones after the 2023 disaster while struggling to ...

President Donald Trump has approved federal disaster aid for six states and tribes following storms and floods that occurred this spring and summer. The disaster declarations, announced Thursday, will ...

Cities, counties and emergency management organizations are strongly supporting a bipartisan bill in the U.S. House to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency, modernize disaster assistance ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...