On September 1, Labor Day, as a member of the Oklahoma Medical Reserve Corps, I spent the day working with about 2,000 Louisianans who had just been bused to Oklahoma City to shelter from Hurricane ...

The public forum, which was sponsored by the Institute for Civility in Government, attracted approximately 50 people, none of whom had immigration reform on their minds. Instead, the two congressmen ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

Texas, Georgia and Illinois are the three worst states for natural disasters. Hawaii, Alaska and Maine are the three states with the fewest natural disasters. Natural disaster frequency and losses are ...

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Nature provides us with all the essential things to lead a beautiful life. However, nature can also take everything away in a matter of seconds. In recent years, the world has seen a lot of natural ...

Here are the types of extreme weather you may face — from tornadoes to floods to snow storms — and the officials who determine how severe it is and how financial assistance is distributed. Natural ...

Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than 10 miles of the atmosphere. So when you think about it, every day that life ...

Extreme weather is inevitable. It can occur at any time and impacts different parts of the country in different ways, as some areas experience hurricanes or tornadoes while others deal with wildfires ...

This paper investigates the impact of natural disasters on exchange rate movements in different country groups with different exchange rate regimes. Using a panel local projection model with a ...