John Dwyer coordinates emergency management in Champaign County, Illinois. He’s seeing a lot more weather extremes, from ...

Climate Advocates are students led by climate advocate leads in each College. They promote environmental awareness and sustainability in teaching. All Climate Advocates are paid through Arts Temps, ...

Experts say recent changes at FEMA, NOAA and the U.S. Forest Service could make a challenging fire season in California even ...

FIU marks 10 years of disaster response training with a field exercise preparing students to lead in real-world emergency situations.

“We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level,” Trump said. Trump said the federal government ...

Harvard University and other US institutions are developing strategies to protect international students amid stricter visa regulations enacted during the Trump era. These policies, including ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants state and local officials to shoulder more of the burden of disaster response, even though what that looks like in practice is unclear.

Cape Girardeau County emergency officials coordinate resources, update disaster plans and maintain a robust tornado siren system to stay prepared as Missouri faces the nation’s highest tornado risk.

Although emergency response plans are required by law, he added, existing state standards “are limited in scope and do not provide the level of detail or realism” that county officials needed ...

Floods exposed weaknesses in California prisons’ emergency plans. They still aren’t ready. By CAYLA MIHALOVICH/CalMatters. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM ... an assistant professor of sociology at the ...

PREPARED — Rick Stead, Jefferson County Public Health Emergency Preparedness coordinator, held a copy of the county’s 2019 emergency response plan in his Steubenville office. -- Christopher ...