Designing buildings and communities to resist natural disasters is a growing trend, embraced by emerging Florida developments ...

When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as "once-in-a-century," and heat waves as "record-breaking." While these ...

When seismic tremors crack open the earth along the Hindu Kush Himalaya, when cyclones churn through the Bay of Bengal, or when monsoon-driven floods swallow entire districts of the Sahel, the victims ...

The world mourns for Japan in the aftermath of its 8.9 earthquake. The size of the quake and the tsunami that followed raise questions about just how far human engineering can resist catastrophic ...

THE Philippines sits along the Pacific Ring of Fire — the belt of tectonic activity around the Pacific Ocean where more than 75 percent of the world’s volcanoes and 90 percent of earthquakes occur.