Every time a building collapses in Nairobi, the sequence is grimly familiar. There is outrage, official visits to the rubble, pledges of investigations and suspensions announced with urgency. Then, ...

Millions of small businesses are discovering that the emergency fiscal help they relied on in 2020 came with a long tail of ...

Building homes and commercial structures for an era of deadlier storms requires a multi-pronged approach including the use of new and more fortified building materials.

As Dr. Christopher Bellavita observed in his 2008 article "Changing Homeland Security: What is Homeland Security?", "The ...

In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...

The Victoria farm of Australian Hall of Fame trainer David Hayes and his sons was burned through on Friday, but family, farm ...

Resilience to disasters is not optional — it is essential to public safety, national security, economic prosperity and ...

Everyone has a view on what's wrong with the country, but I believe the main issues that make life worse for ordinary ...

When two airplanes hit the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001, no one could predict how the Twin Towers ...

Sri Lanka is currently confronting a national crisis of exceptional magnitude. Recent natural disasters have inflicted damage ...

Flagged as structurally unsafe by the PWD and IIT Roorkee, the Rahon–Machhiwara bridge in Nawanshahr remains open to traffic, ...