In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was ...

Though the Atlantic Hurricane Season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, North Carolina faces the largest risk for hurricanes from August to October. Since the private sector is a large economic force, ...

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Traditional disasters with an acute phase and a relatively finite timeline for the immediate response are becoming a thing of the past. Emergency management and public health must now, instead, pivot ...

Home Minister Om Prakash Aryal has said the mitigation of disaster risk in an effective way is not possible in absence of ...

A high-resolution digital seismograph shows detailed earthquake data in blue and orange on a monitor. (AI-generated/Adobe Stock). The day of a disaster is not the time to start thinking about ...

Head of Operations, National Emergency Management Agency, Kano Office, Nura Abdullahi, has called for increased investment in ...

Emergency Management, whether conceived as a management system or an operational unit of government, should not be in the ‘business’ of managing global pandemics. While pandemics are certainly ...

Extreme heat kills more people than nearly every other weather event combined. But does the government respond to these potentially lethal events as they do with hurricanes and floods? Not yet. A ...