It revealed that early warning systems; precautionary measures such as building homes at higher elevations and using ...

Natural disasters can create a devastating loss of property, community, and life. Floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, tsunamis, and more can leave you feeling hopeless, scared, and like ...

EWEB is undertaking a project in South Eugene to replace wooden poles with metal ones and bury power lines underground to ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

As part of National Preparedness Month, Wake County will distribute free emergency kits at select Wake County Public ...

According to Bill Nye’s expert opinion, if Congress stopped denying the existence of climate change, disasters like this past weekend’s Texas flash flood could be prevented. While talking to Dana Bash ...

For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction standards that help houses survive hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes. Now, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of the U.S. adults who have experienced major flooding in the past five years think climate change was at least a partial cause, according to polling conducted earlier this year ...

Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are ...