In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was to make disaster-risk reduction part of everyday thinking worldwide. Today ...

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It would be nice if simply going to work every day meant you would, for the most part, avoid financial crises around every corner. However, when you have lived through the Great Recession, high ...

More than 40 U.S. cities and states have sued oil companies in recent years, attempting to recover the costs of climate-related weather disasters and mitigation measures. Eleven states have passed ...

President Donald Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe late Wednesday, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois and ...

Cece Cordon had been living in a used recreational vehicle for a few months with her husband and toddler when Hurricane Helene swept through Hendersonville, N.C., last September, killing more than 100 ...

There’s a reason disaster movies are so popular – they’re a high-spectacle adrenaline rush that gives viewers a safe way to experience chaos and destruction. Movies like Airport, Titanic, and ...

In the late 1940s, two United Airlines flights met the same terrible fate - crashing in ways no one could yet explain. The disasters of Flight 608 and 624 became the turning point for aviation, ...

Heavy rainfall across southwest Colorado has caused rockslides and flooding that prompted evacuations Saturday. Due to the intense flooding, local officials signed a disaster declaration for La Plata ...

In August, the founder of hedge fund Praetorian Capital Harris “Kuppy” Kupperman penned an essay on the absurd finances behind AI data centers. While the tech industry has likened data centers — or ...