FEMA provides aid after natural disasters, but it’s not meant to replace your home insurance plan, especially as the agency is facing major changes.

Building on this, the Predictions in Public project is developing and testing fire spread prediction maps to improve communication with both emergency services and local communities. The goal is to ...

A cold front that made landfall earlier continues to batter the metropolitan municipality with flooding reported in several ...

Developed by Natural Hazards Research Australia in collaboration with the University of New England (UNE) and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the revised index – labelled ADRI-2 – ...

These are the tools you need to avoid the late changes that kill project schedules. Underlying all of them are four principles: accountability, transparency, integrity and commitment. Risk Up Front is ...

The forum, held from June 2 to 6, 2025, in Geneva, Switzerland, is a biennial event organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) under the mandate of the UN General ...

The 2023 wind-driven wildfires that swept through Lahaina and Upcountry Maui killed 102 people, destroyed more than 2,000 ...

Recent incidents of floods in North East India and cloudburst in Sikkim have resulted in loss of human lives, damage to houses, roads and other infrastructure. It has disrupted normal life and has ...

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation are connected through a common goal: reducing the impacts of extreme events and increasing resilience to disasters, particularly among ...

Other methods to assess forest damage include the use of highly accurate image classification algorithms of post-disaster images (Hamdi et al. 2019). Major satellites for environmental monitoring are ...

The National Emergency Management Agency has concluded a high-level two-day strategic session focused on shaping its operational blueprint for 2025.In a statement issued on Friday, the agency said the ...