A new report, coauthored by Northwestern University faculty including Professors Emeritus Stephen Carr and William Miller, ...

Designing buildings and communities to resist natural disasters is a growing trend, embraced by emerging Florida developments ...

When seismic tremors crack open the earth along the Hindu Kush Himalaya, when cyclones churn through the Bay of Bengal, or when monsoon-driven floods swallow entire districts of the Sahel, the victims ...

When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as "once-in-a-century," and heat waves as "record-breaking." While these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan has taken steps to make its buildings more resilient to seismic activity. Strategic planning, updating building codes, and a ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Long before the winds and the rain and the flooding, there was ...

To prevent future disasters, we must turn to sustainable, integrated urban waterfront development. Palafox Associates and Palafox Architecture envisions a lakefront with walkable, bikeable linear ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Natural disasters test the seams of our ...

With World Bank support, Morocco has made significant strides since 2008 in strengthening its disaster and climate resilience. This has included gradual transition from a post-disaster approach ...

As the destruction and costs from weather- and climate-related disasters in the U.S. continued to rise in 2025—the Los Angeles wildfires alone caused over $60 billion in damage, the most expensive ...

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 ...

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