Climate change is causing more frequent and devastating natural disasters. The goal of this paper is two-fold. First, it examines the dynamic effects of natural disasters on the growth of output and ...

You do not want to get in the way of recovery efforts or be a burden on the infrastructure, but some communities that have been hit hard by natural disasters, like Lahaina in Maui, depend on tourism.

New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

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

I first got the opportunity to watch USAID work up close and personal in 2007, when I deployed to Iraq as commander of the ...

The Duke Energy Foundation presented the Knox County Emergency Management Agency with a $11,000 check. The Duke Energy Foundation announced Tuesday they gave officials ...

When people survive catastrophic events such as wildfires or hurricanes, and then are left to cope with loss, they may ...

Trump’s tantrum comes one day after Elon Musk claimed that the Department of Government Efficiency had “discovered” that FEMA ...

In Colombia, coastal erosion caused by a combination of climate change and environmentally destructive industrial agriculture is displacing the country’s poorest citizens. But the scale of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting head of the federal agency responsible for responding to disasters said Monday that he’s suspending payments sent to New York City to house migrants and that staff who ...

September came hard as massive hurricanes slammed into our nation’s Gulf Coast. Like many, I found myself completely distracted and immersed in the round-the-clock news coverage of the ...

The pain of seeing the town obliterated drove the man, who we will refer to as Hiroshi, to drink. Yet, he now realizes that the natural disasters also led to new ties with volunteers who came to ...