How people react during an evacuation from hurricanes, aircraft accidents or active shooter incidents and terrorist attacks is being studied by a team of professors and students at Embry-Riddle ...

Federal disaster response workers are under-resourced and overworked, the Government Accountability Office found.

An estimated 230,000 people died in the tsunami, about 8,000 in Thailand. Three years later, Shors returned to the island expecting to see devastation. “I was amazed at how much had been built.

Friday marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina touched down, leading to flooding that devastated the city of New Orleans, ...

How Americans think the government should respond to natural disasters, according to recent polls There's little consensus about whether the government should be involved in combating climate ...

Natural disasters hit large swaths of America every year. Only four U.S. counties escaped significant damage from these hazards between 1999 and 2013, according to a recent study. In 2017 alone, ...

The psychological impact of natural disasters such as the Japan earthquake can be revealed in the way people inherently respond to unpredictable situations, according to a psychology expert.

About 7 in 10 Americans believe the federal government should have a “major role” in tracking weather events and warning people about them, according to AP-NORC polling from June.

How Americans think the government should respond to natural disasters, according to recent polls There's little consensus about whether the government should be involved in combating climate ...

But while Americans largely believed the federal government should play a major role in preparing for and responding to natural disasters, an analysis of recent AP-NORC polls shows less consensus ...