The bayous around downtown Houston seen hours after Hurricane Beryl hit the city. President Biden has granted a federal emergency disaster declaration to speed the recovery efforts in 121 Texas ...

We in public media must rally to support our peers at stations challenged by weather catastrophes. Public radio news is a lifeline for isolated people in devastated rural and urban communities. Our ...

Officials are warning a key federal program that provides disaster loans to businesses and homeowners is running critically low on funds in the aftermath of back-to-back hurricanes, increasing the ...

Recent statements from the current administration signal a deliberate shift of disaster responsibility to states, elevating the need for robust, state-led emergency financing and related state ...

Giving his agency high marks for how the feds responded to three major hurricanes and serious wildfires in California, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told Congress on Tuesday that ...

For many people living across various regions of the world, the fear of natural disasters has reached levels that far exceed the actual statistical risk they face. S. adults overall are "somewhat" or ...

Sandra Edwards, who lives in Houston’s Fifth Ward, is still trying to recover from Hurricane Beryl, which badly damaged her home last July. “The government doesn’t care about us,” she says. Credit: ...

Most Americans will remember 2020 as the year when the pandemic changed everything. But for Lake Charles, Louisiana, and its neighbors along the Gulf Coast, it was also the year of record-setting ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — A Mountain View is usually an ideal backdrop for your home, but for Bill Wysong, it's a grim reminder of a past disaster. "That hillside was all green, totally covered with trees," ...

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:MPR Speaker Amien Rais has suggested that the current flooding be declared a national disaster. Rais said this was necessary considering the ongoing suffering of many people ...