Natural disasters disrupt societies, strain national economies and claim thousands of lives each year. Storms, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and prolonged droughts damage infrastructure, ...

Technology disaster recovery (DR) initiatives provide strategies and procedures that can help organisations protect investments in IT systems and infrastructure. The essential mission for disaster ...

A significant aim of natural disaster research is to improve the science, or the hazard assessment, of risk associated with such disasters. This goal could be achieved by, for example, enhancing the ...

May 17 (Reuters) - The United Nations published a landmark report on Sunday about how natural disasters threaten lives and livelihoods around the world. [LD310640] Following are the main findings of ...

The “perfect storm” is a phrase often invoked to suggest a combination of rare events that generate something unusually large and adverse. Often used in meteorological contexts, “perfect storms” ...

Wayne County tops the list of Michigan counties most vulnerable to natural disaster and is No. 26 among the 3,142 counties in the country, according to a new National Risk Index released by the ...

As part of a partnership between AAMI and VICSES that has been in place since 2003, the two organisations operated a joint ...

Panama has instituted critical reforms to improve its technical and institutional capacity to manage the disaster risk resulting from natural and health-related hazards. The reforms allowed for a ...

Canada has released its National Risk Profile, the first public, strategic, national-level disaster risk assessment. It provides a national picture of disaster risks facing Canada, and the existing ...

(Reuters) - The United Nations published a landmark report on Sunday about how natural disasters threaten lives and livelihoods around the world. * Since 1975, 23 mega-disasters have killed 1.7 ...