As hurricane season accelerates and extreme weather events grow in frequency and intensity, communities face a pivotal moment. For decades, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) served as the ...

The 1972–1974 and 1984–1985 famines left catastrophic memories in Ethiopia’s recent history. Hundreds of thousands of people died of hunger, and many were ...

"Hurricane Katrina raised awareness about the importance of the human-animal bond in disaster response worldwide," said Kitty Block, president and CEO of Humane World for Animals. "Whether we are ...

Illustration of the proposed SS-FT framework. (A-B) show the overall SS-FT and the model’s dataflow. (C-D) elaborates on the supervised fine-tuning, and the self-supervised contrastive learning ...

Ethiopia has taken a major step toward strengthening its humanitarian self-reliance with the first meeting of the newly restructured Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Council, Deputy Prime Minister ...

Hurricane Ian caused widespread damage in Florida in 2022, estimated at over $112 billion. This scene was once a shopping center. Giorgio Veira/AFP via Getty Images Imagine a world in which a ...

Florida International University kicked off its 10th annual disaster field exercise today, marking a decade of preparing hundreds of students for careers in disaster management. “Disasters are ...

Hurricane Harvey survivor Pablo Garcia receives disaster assistance at his front door from Liana Bates-Hall, FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) Crew Lead, and Lauren Cutler, right, FEMA Corps DSA ...

From floods and forest fires to earthquakes—the frequency and intensity of natural disasters is increasing. This also means an increase in the number of people affected and damage to infrastructure, ...

The State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration will assume leadership of U.S. overseas disaster response operations from the dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development, ...