Resilience is the capacity of cities and the physical, social, and economic systems within them to survive, adapt, and grow ...
WASHINGTON The government is squandering tens of millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster aid, in some cases doling out housing payments to people living rent-free, investigators said ...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is convening a virtual public workshop focused on the needs of children and youth in disasters. The aims of this workshop are to explore ...
The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research is an interdisciplinary research center in which environmental engineers, environmental health scientists, philosophers, and other groups work ...
Are the victims of the California wildfires benefiting from the lessons America learned in its botched response to Hurricane Katrina? Peter Apps, who writes a blog on AlertNet, a Web site on ...
Google Earth changed the face of digital maps in 2005, giving users the ability to look at satellite and other imagery almost anywhere across the world.
The Rev. Susan K. Smith has been immersed in Hurricane Katrina stories for the last two months — and it is beginning to take an emotional toll. “I can hardly sleep,” said Ms. Smith, senior pastor of ...
Gov. Rick Perry today asked President Bush to designate the two consecutive hurricanes as one natural disaster for administrative and funding. He said such a designation would allow Texas to be ...