In 2022, the United States experienced 18 separate weather and climate disasters costing at least one billion dollars according to NOAA. In 2023, that number rose to 28 separate billion dollar weather ...

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

Bothell updated its Hazard Mitigation Plan addressing 14 hazards and released it for public review to improve disaster ...

When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

The Trump administration appears to be drastically reducing the federal funds it offers to help states head off future natural disasters, a decision that could come under fire as the White House faces ...

A group of 20 states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday seeking to block what they say was an illegal termination of a program that provided federal funding for natural disaster mitigation ...

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Think tank explores tax-advantaged savings accounts for homeowners insurance The creation of tax-advantaged catastrophe and hazard mitigation savings accounts for homeowners is one of several options ...

The November 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano and the resulting Armero disaster marked a turning point in natural hazard and risk research, assessment and mitigation. Here, we ...