In this age of megastorms, visionary designers around the world are taking clever advantage of the chance to rethink what ...
Sri Lanka has experienced more than 44,000 natural disasters, including minor ones, over the past decade from 2015 to 2025, forcing successive governments to spend over Rs. 30 billion on compensation ...
Residents of this small coastal city in the Pacific Northwest know what to do when there’s a tsunami warning: Flee to higher ground. For those in or near Columbia Memorial, the city’s only hospital, ...
The Howard government’s $1bn reconstruction package offered to Indonesia in the wake of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami was ...
From earthquakes to tsunamis natural disasters have shaped history and science explains how they unfold... The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss America’s food ...
Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters ...
Tsunami. Supercyclone. Monster quake. Coastal India was the worst hit in a series of natural disasters that exacted a devastating toll from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. The only positive: govern ...
The disaster gave rise to global tsunami warning networks, saving countless lives since, as seen in Japan's 2011 Tohoku event.
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Facing natural disasters

Sri Lanka, Dec. 26 -- Exactly 21 years ago, Sri Lanka witnessed the biggest natural disaster in living memory - the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Today, in the wake of the destruction caused by Cyclone ...
Australia's response to the Boxing Day tsunami helped boost relations with Indonesia, but high-profile arrests would soon ...
Sri Lanka is currently confronting a national crisis of exceptional magnitude. Recent natural disasters have inflicted damage ...
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Shimane Prefecture in Japan's Chugoku region on Monday, with residents reporting severe ...