Ted Lemoi stands outside a FEMA disaster relief recovery center in Cumberland, R.I., after receiving a $810 grant and a $27,000 loan from the small business association to repair is flood damaged home ...

Climate change exacerbates the severity of natural disasters, which disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. Mitigating disasters’ health consequences is critical to promoting health equity, ...

In an effort to respond to natural disasters in the region more efficiently, Cyprus and Greece have set up the joint “Epicentre” project, which was officially launched by Justice Minister Marios ...

From a cramped living room in Brooklyn, New York, a handful of young computer nerds has developed a new way to use technology to help save lives in natural disasters. They have designed tiny ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. With the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters due to climate change, it's ...

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A project that combines satellite images, mapping technologies and the local knowledge of villagers to help build climate-proof settlements in disaster-prone areas of ...

The United Nations Agencies are tackling natural disaster management using artificial intelligence (AI) with a new 2021 Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management (FG-AI4NDM). The focus group ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. DELRAY BEACH, Fla., March 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Natural Disaster Management Market is expected to reach USD ...

Extreme weather events in the Caribbean region are becoming increasingly severe because of climate change. The region also has high rates of poorly controlled chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), ...

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most natural disaster-prone regions. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific estimates that natural disasters drain the region ...

WASHINGTON, March 11, 2022 - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a $50 million IDA grant for the Tajikistan Preparedness and Resilience to Disasters Project, which will invest ...

A direct lending program providing financial relief after a natural disaster could be eliminated if President-elect Donald Trump follows the recommendations of the conservative Project 2025 playbook, ...