On the first Saturday in April, a Buffalo blizzard set the stage for a deadly traffic pileup resulting in serious injuries with the added risk of hypothermia. While a springtime snowstorm is nothing ...

Now more than ever before, our world needs effective leaders who possess the skills – and cool heads – to effectively manage and proactively respond to public emergencies, disasters and catastrophes.

Native Americans are increasingly responsible for emergency management systems when a natural disaster hits a tribal community. Tribes can issue emergency declarations requests to open up help from ...

VIENNA, 11 September (UN Information Service) – From 16 to 19 September 2008, decision makers and senior experts from disaster management and space technology communities from the Pacific region will ...

Hurricane Katrina looms large in the history of American emergency management, both for what went wrong as the disaster unfolded and for the policy changes it triggered. As the nation looks back on ...

All 50 states have emergency management offices. Each one functions a bit differently from all the rest. In this Disaster Zone Podcast: Idaho Office of Emergency Management we learn from Brad Richy ...

Eric Stern has recently received funding from DHS Science and Technology for an extreme weather informatics project and from NOAA for work on extreme heat events. He has lectured at the National ...