The Federal Emergency Management Agency helps Americans prepare for and recover from disasters when states and localities are ...

The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research is an interdisciplinary research center in which environmental engineers, environmental health scientists, philosophers, and other groups work ...

Are the victims of the California wildfires benefiting from the lessons America learned in its botched response to Hurricane Katrina? Peter Apps, who writes a blog on AlertNet, a Web site on ...

Gov. Rick Perry today asked President Bush to designate the two consecutive hurricanes as one natural disaster for administrative and funding. He said such a designation would allow Texas to be ...

The United States Department of Justice has announced the closure of the National Centre for Disaster Fraud (NCDF), bringing an end to a programme established in the aftermath of the devastating ...

The role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in emergency response is part of the national response plan for disasters. The agency is involved in the preparedness and planning ...