Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see "every star in the sky." It was early September 2005, a ...

Children born in Fukushima Prefecture around the time of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear accident may not ...

This hurricane season marks 20 years since Katrina made landfall—its devastation stretching far beyond the flooded streets of New Orleans. It was a disaster that permanently changed communities, ...

The Compounding Disasters Study Committee and NASEM staff will convene a virtual panel of community stakeholders to discuss their personal experiences preparing for and recovering from disasters that.

Forty years ago, on January 28, 1986, “exactly 73.621 seconds after liftoff at 11:39 a.m., the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all seven persons on board. With the destruction of Challenger ...

Judy Lawrence receives funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Accelerating Adaptation to Climate Change fund and serves as a commissioner with the Climate Change Commission ...

This consensus study will examine the impacts of multiple, compounding disasters that occurred across the Gulf region from 2020-2021 and provide findings on what factors enabled or could enable ...