A Florida company says its new technology is helping to build homes faster and at a lower cost amid the impacts of climate change.

Additionally, inflation has made natural disaster damage more expensive to fix, a trend that is unlikely to reverse. According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), Canadian insurers have faced ...

Natural disasters can be categorized as "acute" or "slow" in their onset. They are predictable because they cluster in geographic areas. Natural hazards are unpreventable and, for the most part ...

The Home Depot Foundation is committed to supporting communities with natural disaster preparedness, short-term response and long-term recovery. Each year, the Foundation and Team Depot, Home Depot’s ...

That trend has profound implications for emergency management, especially as natural disasters and extreme weather events become more common and severe. A growing body of evidence reveals that older ...

As global warming spreads pests, diseases and toxins, new programs are developing to help medical professionals look at their ...

Although improvements in future health-care system response to disasters will include proactive preparedness and readiness steps, responding assets will often be a needed reactive resource. 22,23 With ...

Concept papers or case studies that help define the emerging field of disaster ecology are also welcome. We are particularly interested in papers that empirically investigate examples of ecological ...