In his 50 years on the faculty at UC Santa Cruz, geologist Gary Griggs has witnessed a lot of natural disasters in the local area, including floods, landslides, earthquakes, and destructive coastal ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the winners of the 2021 third annual Seth Trotter Book Collecting Contest, sponsored by the Friends of the University of Delaware ...

When Hurricane Harvey hit two weeks ago, I had no time to prepare my children for the onslaught of information they were going to receive about levees breaching and bayous cresting or the impending ...

The following excerpt is drawn from the Prologue of Disaster Nation, a new book by David J. Alexander that examines how America’s disaster response system has become reactive, fragmented, and fiscally ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — After tornadoes and hurricanes, volunteers quickly move in to help. They clean up debris. Some even stick around to rebuild. Volunteers from Headwaters Relief Organization ...

The Vietnam War continues to haunt America’s conscience, as well as historians, who keep searching for the truth of how we stumbled into Southeast Asia and stayed for year after bloody year. Our ...

CHICAGO – John Updike was visiting family in Brooklyn on September 11, 2001. He wrote later about watching Manhattan explode and crumble that day as if it were episodic TV, a perfect day with perfect ...

“In the movies, disasters have happy endings,” writes Samantha Montano in her new – and first – book, “Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis” (Park Row Books, 384 pp., ...