PREPARATIONS FOR RISING OCEAN LEVELS. IT MEANS, AT LEAST FOR NOW, THIS PROJECT IS NOT GOING TO GET DONE. CUTS TO FEMA LEAVING A MAJOR BOSTON PROJECT DEAD IN THE WATER. THIS WAS A PROGRAM DESIGNED IN ...

Eight months after Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeastern United States, many communities in North Carolina have yet to fully recover. Despite facing an estimated $60 billion in damages, some ...

Workers remove a toilet from a flood-damaged home on Third Street in Barre on July 12, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger In 2023 and 2024, Linda Martin, chair of the Wolcott Selectboard, saw ...

The newly created task force held its first meeting on Friday. One of the new task forces to come out of the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly is focused on disaster prevention. The task force held its ...

Gov. Maura Healey slammed the Trump administration Wednesday for canceling $90 million in disaster prevention aid for Massachusetts — a move that “makes our communities less safe,” she said. The ...

Florida is no stranger to disasters. From hurricanes and flooding to extreme heat, the state experiences the devastating impacts of climate-driven hazards year after year. In 2024 alone, Florida faced ...

Stephanie Beasley’s recent article, “Back-to-Back Hurricanes Force Donors to Rethink Their Disaster Approach” (October 15), raises important issues regarding the best philanthropic response to ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WSAZ) - Natural disasters have hit the commonwealth of Kentucky particularly hard in recent years. FEMA issued 13 disaster declarations for the Bluegrass State since 2020. From floods ...

Workers from ReSource and the Montpelier Youth Conservation Corps clear mud out of a basement on Third Street in Barre on Friday, July 12, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Do natural calamities ...

Remnants of homes completely destroyed in 2024 by Hurricane Helene in Keaton Beach, Florida where the catastrophic hurricane made landfall. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat Alicia Devine/Tallahassee ...

BNPB is seeking additional funding through foreign loans to strengthen disaster prevention and mitigation efforts.