Cat bonds offer a unique solution to disaster risk insurance, transferring risk to financial markets for post-disaster relief.

Maine needs to brace for natural disaster | Opinion Devastating flash flooding in Texas, New Jersey and Vermont remind us that the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed ...

Artificial intelligence applications like predictive maintenance and digital twins can help keep the power on and the roads ...

Successive Finance Commissions (FCs) have aided the cause, no doubt, but the country’s vulnerabilities have also grown. Perhaps the 16th FC will look at some new models that could be adopted to ...

Researchers are calling for a more reliable approach to understanding water-related hazards by explicitly accounting for ...

SEN. Bong Go has filed Senate Bill 669, which aims to amend Republic Act 10121, also known as the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010. A key provision of the measure is to ...

The senator filed a bill creating the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) to strengthen and streamline disaster preparedness, response and recovery efforts. He also wants to establish through the ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from reallocating more than $4 billion meant to help communities protect ...

Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and warn those at risk.

A major security vulnerability in Microsoft's widely used Sharepoint server software has been exploited by hackers, causing chaos within businesses and government agencies.