Chemical disasters can be devastating to local economies. Just ask West Virginia businesses whose economy lost $19 million per day after the Elk River spill in 2015. The EPA is now updating rules on ...

In Washington, there’s a persistent myth that investing in disaster mitigation means choosing between environmental ...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has urged efforts to enhance the capacity to prevent and respond to natural disasters and effectively safeguard ...

Rising waters threatened. Alerts were issued. Girl Scouts were evacuated. It might sound like the story of the flash floods in Texas, where 27 people were killed at a Christian girls camp by the ...

A chemical fire, explosion or toxic release occurs every two days in the U.S., according to data compiled by the Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters, a group of environmental justice organizations ...

The Public Utilities Commission approved hundreds of millions in spending for NV Energy’s natural disaster prevention and continued to allow a controversial cost recovery method that has Southern ...

Imagining a disaster is scary. Contemplating death, disruption, and devastation can adversely affect our mental health. How could disaster game psychology make stopping disasters fun, effective, and ...

The Division for the Advancement of Women is organizing, in collaboration with the Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), an Expert Group Meeting on "Environmental ...

The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held its 25th group study session on the afternoon of April 28, focusing on improving the capacity for disaster prevention, ...

According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, as of July 2022, nine climate disaster events exceeded $1 billion in losses. Hurricane Ian, which has a reported death of more than 100 ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Like many NV Energy customers, Las Vegas senior Ann Marie Cittadino has seen her power bill recently increase. “From the last year, it went up 20 percent,” Cittadino said. Cittadino ...