Investing in pre-disaster mitigation can save taxpayers billions of dollars by reducing the cost of recovery from natural disasters, while also providing strong protections to vulnerable local ...

Natural disasters, while undoubtedly disruptive and damaging, can serve as powerful catalysts for organizational transformation if approached with foresight and strategic intent. As we’ve explored, ...

The Division for the Advancement of Women is organizing, in collaboration with the Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), an Expert Group Meeting on "Environmental ...

The Trump administration appears to be drastically reducing the federal funds it offers to help states head off future natural disasters, a decision that could come under fire as the White House faces ...

A group of 20 states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday seeking to block what they say was an illegal termination of a program that provided federal funding for natural disaster mitigation ...

The Earth is getting warmer, and natural disasters are becoming more intense. From wildfires and wildlife population changes in Alaska to hurricanes in the south, the devastating effects of climate ...

Eight local governments were awarded natural disaster mitigation grants from the Colorado Natural Disaster Mitigation Enterprise. The eight local government agencies selected for funding included ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The ...

This is part one in a three-part series on risk mitigation and disaster recovery. Read part two here and part three here. Business leaders and risk managers should always be prepared for the worst. As ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has ended a program Louisiana depends on to fund natural disaster mitigation projects. The federal agency announced on ...