The curious minds at What If reveal the top three coolest space megastructures, imagining the mind-blowing engineering feats that could exist beyond Earth. House Republicans break with Trump, blocking ...

Iain White leads the Better Resilience Decisions programme for the New Zealand Natural Hazards and Resilience Platform and receives funding from the Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake and the ...

With extreme weather events, fires and floods growing increasingly common, general warnings are no longer adequate. Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with the World Meteorological ...

A key official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) indicated Wednesday that he believes the nation’s threshold for the declaration of major disasters is too low as various changes loom ...

The Trump administration has denied the state of Illinois’ appeal for a disaster declaration that would have unlocked federal assistance to thousands of residents affected by heavy rains and flooding ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois families hit hard by storms last August will not get extra federal help. Video captured some of the damage. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied the state's ...

A D.C. utility had been working for weeks to repair a collapsed sewer line when the president blamed Maryland’s governor for the contamination on Monday. By Scott Dance Maxine Joselow and Eric Niiler ...

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — How do you fix what is being called the largest sewage spill in the region’s history? That was the multi-million-dollar question facing Maryland lawmakers on Friday as they convened a ...

After months of back and forth between Illinois officials and the federal government, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has officially rejected the state's request for disaster relief funding ...

President Donald Trump on Monday accused Maryland officials of presiding over a “massive Ecological Disaster” after a sewer line breach last month sent millions of gallons of raw sewage into the ...