This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more ...

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The most common cause of dam failures is overtopping where the spillway cannot cope with floodwaters. Reservoir safety may also be challenged by rapid or sustained water level lowering during droughts ...

Twenty years later, Hannibal Nicholls recounts what was going on in his life toward the end of August 2005. He was in college and was engaged to his fiancée. Then suddenly, he was in the Orleans ...

Jonathan Reckford jokes that before he became CEO of Habitat for Humanity International he couldn’t really keep a job.

In 2024, the U.S. saw 27 weather and climate disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage. The total number of destructive disasters was just one shy of 2023’s record, according to the National ...

A robot dog approaches a mannequin simulating an injured person during a demonstration of robot-assisted triage at the University of Maryland on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (TNS) — In a simulated natural ...

From left, firefighter Adrian Chairez and Fire Youth Academy students Taylor Flynn, Valerie Valentin and Lena Caris pull Captain Robert Warrick and fellow student Felix Valencia, in Watsonville, ...

The National Guard logged more than 400,000 member service days per year over the past decade responding to hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters, the Pentagon has revealed in a report to ...