This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” When a major storm blows through town, local, state, and tribal governments rely on federal funding to help ...

Meteorologist Kristen Currie spoke with Dr. Lori Peek, a Sociology Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to get ...

Natural disasters, including earthquakes, cyclones, floods, and wildfires, cause significant environmental damage and have emerged as a major global issue. These events can result in loss of life and ...

Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are ...

Since the devastating flooding hit in Texas over the holiday weekend, we've had the same question posed time and again to the ...

Psychologists and disaster experts say natural disasters, such as the floods in Texas, can take a heavy mental health toll.

Two decades later, New Orleans’ Black leaders share lessons on displacement, policy failure and continued progess with ...

It’s better to build resilience before a natural disaster, but creating the community you need to survive can happen anytime, even after disaster strikes.

The City of Santa Cruz says a vegetation fire is forcing evacuations at Natural Bridges State Park on Thursday.