The bayous around downtown Houston seen hours after Hurricane Beryl hit the city. President Biden has granted a federal emergency disaster declaration to speed the recovery efforts in 121 Texas ...

Officials are warning a key federal program that provides disaster loans to businesses and homeowners is running critically low on funds in the aftermath of back-to-back hurricanes, increasing the ...

We in public media must rally to support our peers at stations challenged by weather catastrophes. Public radio news is a lifeline for isolated people in devastated rural and urban communities. Our ...

Sandra Edwards, who lives in Houston’s Fifth Ward, is still trying to recover from Hurricane Beryl, which badly damaged her home last July. “The government doesn’t care about us,” she says. Credit: ...

Giving his agency high marks for how the feds responded to three major hurricanes and serious wildfires in California, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told Congress on Tuesday that ...

Battered by last month's ferocious climate-fueled hurricane, Jamaica joined other small island nations and impoverished countries at Monday's United Nations climate talks to implore the rest of the ...

Most Americans will remember 2020 as the year when the pandemic changed everything. But for Lake Charles, Louisiana, and its neighbors along the Gulf Coast, it was also the year of record-setting ...

Recent statements from the current administration signal a deliberate shift of disaster responsibility to states, elevating the need for robust, state-led emergency financing and related state ...

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:MPR Speaker Amien Rais has suggested that the current flooding be declared a national disaster. Rais said this was necessary considering the ongoing suffering of many people ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — A Mountain View is usually an ideal backdrop for your home, but for Bill Wysong, it's a grim reminder of a past disaster. "That hillside was all green, totally covered with trees," ...