An upcoming gathering of disaster survivors in Washington D.C. could play a pivotal role in sparking changes within the ...

Crawling out from a home in ruins following a disaster causes trauma that can affect a person's mental health in the short and long term. Kyle Schott, a licensed counselor and chairman of the Cape ...

"It was completely sunny at headquarters. I didn't think that anything was it could have even happened," Angie Rodgers said. She's the executive director of the Scott County 911 Emergency Services ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - President Donald Trump approved Missouri’s request for major disaster declarations for the April 29 and May 16 tornadoes, according to Governor Mike Kehoe. Eligible ...

Discover groundbreaking technologies designed to revolutionize disaster preparedness and rescue operations in the wake of ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. When a ...

Oklahoma - The Original Tornado Hotspot Oklahoma remains one of America's most feared tornado regions, with communities ...

Discovery Park's Purdue Policy Research Institute will bring together disaster resilience experts and Purdue professors and researchers to host a symposium on "Floods, Tornadoes and Disaster ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – President Donald Trump has approved a major FEMA disaster declaration for the state of Kansas. FEMA states that federal disaster assistance will be available to supplement ...

A new nationwide study suggests tornadoes top the list of natural disasters Americans fear most, outranking tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes. The survey found that concern over tornadoes isn’t ...

If the start of 2017 is any indication, this year could prove to be costly in terms of weather disasters and damages. Through March, five weather disasters across the U.S. have each caused at least $1 ...