When it comes to disaster preparedness, Santa Cruz County is employing not only a recently established Office of Response, Recovery & Resilience, but also a community nonprofit called CERT that ...

Humanitarian aid groups are on the ground in North Carolina, offering crucial support to communities impacted by recent disasters.

Lone Star' finale asteroid disaster was inspired by a 2013 meteor strike that resulted in almost 1,500 injuries.

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

This happened at the same time Republican lawmakers nearby on Capitol Hill were proposing conditions on disaster aid to California amid the wildfires. Supreme Court gives green light to law that ...

If accurate, this would exceed the inflation-adjusted $201.3 billion cost of Hurricane Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. In 2024 alone, there were 27 weather and climate ...

An enormous asteroid potentially larger than the Washington Monument is due to zip past our planet today. For comparison, the Washington Monument is about 555 feet tall, the Golden Gate Bridge is ...

NASA is currently monitoring asteroid 2024 PT5, which is passing by Earth this month at a safe distance. Discovered in August 2024, the 33-foot-wide object has followed a path similar to Earth’s, ...

Asteroid impact sulfur release less lethal in dinosaur extinction. ScienceDaily . Retrieved January 29, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250116133822.htm ...

A massive asteroid, 2022 CE2, is set to make a close flyby of Earth on Thursday. The 370-foot asteroid will travel at an astounding speed of 47,721 km/h but poses no threat, passing at a safe ...

Natural disasters such as wildfires, earthquakes and tsunamis often serve as triggers. Devastating on their own, these events can have far more catastrophic aftermaths that are shaped by human ...