When Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. in 2005, nearly 2000 people lost their lives and the cost of the catastrophe exceeded ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is convening a virtual public workshop focused on the needs of children and youth in disasters. The aims of this workshop are to explore ...

WASHINGTON The government is squandering tens of millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster aid, in some cases doling out housing payments to people living rent-free, investigators said ...

The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research is an interdisciplinary research center in which environmental engineers, environmental health scientists, philosophers, and other groups work ...

When Hurricane Katrina struck the USA in 2005, nearly 2000 people lost their lives and the cost of the catastrophe exceeded $100 billion. Now, 21 ...

Are the victims of the California wildfires benefiting from the lessons America learned in its botched response to Hurricane Katrina? Peter Apps, who writes a blog on AlertNet, a Web site on ...

Tiffany Woods' infant son, Emmanuel, died from malnutrition after she fed him cow's milk instead of formula during the natural disaster.

Natural disasters have become some of the most expensive shocks to the U.S. economy, reshaping entire regions in a matter of days and leaving financial scars that linger for decades. The priciest ...

Gov. Rick Perry today asked President Bush to designate the two consecutive hurricanes as one natural disaster for administrative and funding. He said such a designation would allow Texas to be ...