What Are Natural Disasters? Natural disasters are catastrophic events that occur as a result of natural processes of the ...

Associate Professor and Chair of American Studies Kevin Rozario, who is the author of Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of America, recently took a moment to discuss the impact of the ...

Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet ... in the Bay of Brest. The disaster killed 22 people and spread ...

Scorned by critics on its release, in 1999, Alan Rudolph’s Kurt Vonnegut adaptation now emerges as an inspired comic ...

Beyond the buzzword, climate change is a long-term change in temperature and weather patterns due to both natural and human activities ... weather events, the impacts are cascading, disrupting ...

A disaster can be defined as an emergency of such severity and magnitude that the resultant combination of deaths, injuries, illness, and property damage cannot be effectively managed with routine ...

As temperatures rise, climate-induced disasters ... investment in human development, they strive to adapt to the changing climate and its social, economic and humanitarian impacts.

The executive orders (EOs) and policy memoranda President Donald Trump issued thus far advance his goal of making America ...

Lawmakers attempting to regulate children’s access to social media must decide whether bans or warning labels are the optimal ...

This, after a year in which hurricanes Milton and Helene and other extreme weather events had already exacted tens of billions of dollars in American disaster losses. As the compounding impacts of ...

THE ART OF THE DEAL: President Donald Trump said he’d withhold wildfire disaster aid to California ... students for climate careers and boost the impact of existing climate research.