EDITOR’S NOTE: Luis “Vance” Taylor is the chief of the Office of Access and Functional Needs at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. Taylor leads the team responsible for ensuring ...

Twenty years ago Monday, former Vice-President Al Gore's documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received a standing ovation. The 2006 ...

New research from the University of Colorado Denver shows many communities fail to take historic preservation into account when planning for natural disasters, risking a loss of heritage and critical ...

When North Carolina lawmakers passed their latest recovery package for the Hurricane Helene-ravaged western part of their state this month, it didn’t feel like relief to residents there, many hoping ...

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This week, a Senate committee examining Australia’s disaster resilience tabled its long-awaited report in parliament. The 151-page report makes ten recommendations. These concern funding arrangements, ...

(CNN) — I’ll never forget when my phone rang and I was told we were activating in response to the imminent failure of the Oroville Dam, the tallest in the United States, in the Sierra Nevada foothills ...