Prepping for disaster recovery needs a plan, testing, and thinking about non-technical necessities like food and shelter for the recovery team. (A hurricane devastated an island that held two data ...

Heather Kelly, SR530 long-term recovery lead for the Snohomish County, Wash., Executive’s Office, provided me with their lessons learned to-date from the Oso mudslide. This event happened on March 22, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University will lead research to determine why some communities recover from natural disasters more quickly than others, an effort aimed at addressing the nation's ...

It was around this time 15 years ago that University of Delaware Assistant Professor Jennifer Trivedi was calling people she knew in Biloxi, Mississippi to see if they were evacuating the coast as ...

This combination of photos shows areas affected by the earthquake-triggered tsunami which hit Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province, Indonesia, on Dec 25, 2004. The top photo shows a devastated ...

Congress and the Biden administration must take a different route as they seek a more equitable recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. As many warned early on, the pandemic economic collapse is worsening ...

There’s a saying that the late L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan cited during his tenure when it came to government red tape, and it came in handy amid a catastrophe that, until last week, was a notch higher ...