Editor’s note: In the wake of the devastating floods that have swept through Texas—claiming lives, displacing thousands and overwhelming local infrastructure—the urgency of disaster preparedness has ...

A team has found that high resolution mass spectrometry could be a valuable tool for identifying and assessing air-borne contaminants produced by natural and human-made disasters. A team including ...

Tropical Cyclones originate between latitudes 10 degrees north and south of the equator. They form through heat interactions of warm surface ocean waters and the atmosphere. Cyclones move from the ...

An ad hoc committee will organize a 1.5-day public workshop to advance medical and public health research conducted during large-scale emergencies and disasters (“disaster science”) to benefit the ...

THE P1-billion allocation for Project NOAH is, on its face, a welcome development. In a country battered annually by typhoons ...