Roorkee: Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday virtually attended a one-day workshop on disaster risk resilience and ...

This is part one in a three-part series on risk mitigation and disaster recovery. Read part two here and part three here. Business leaders and risk managers should always be prepared for the worst. As ...

Resilience to disasters is not optional — it is essential to public safety, national security, economic prosperity and ...

Bothell updated its Hazard Mitigation Plan addressing 14 hazards and released it for public review to improve disaster ...

When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

Risk transfer instruments can offer cost-effective alternatives to measures aimed at mitigating significant long-term climate threats to the economy, said Amit Prothi, director general of the ...

Think tank explores tax-advantaged savings accounts for homeowners insurance The creation of tax-advantaged catastrophe and hazard mitigation savings accounts for homeowners is one of several options ...

On Monday, Representatives Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) introduced the Disaster Resiliency and Coverage Act of 2024 (H.R. 7849), legislation providing homeowners in disaster-prone ...

The Trump administration appears to be drastically reducing the federal funds it offers to help states head off future natural disasters, a decision that could come under fire as the White House faces ...

In 2022, the United States experienced 18 separate weather and climate disasters costing at least one billion dollars according to NOAA. In 2023, that number rose to 28 separate billion dollar weather ...