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 ...

Hannah Hedrick, 17, wrote a children's book inspired by her experience in the Thomas Fire and debris flow to help other kids impacted by natural disasters. Credit: Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo ...

When a disaster occurs, aid workers, organizations, and governments naturally focus on emergency assistance to victims. They set up medical outposts in conflict zones, drop food supplies from ...

Here is the new review that is posted on Recovery Diva’s blog. Yes, I am a co-author and editor of the book, but it is nice to see a good review of the work we did on the publication. Editors: Hans ...

It's truly incredible what human beings can do when they are pushed to their limits. And no other genre of literature proves this quite like non-fiction survival books. The following eight stories are ...

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 ...

Living with Climate Change: How Communities Are Surviving and Thriving in a Changing Climate (Jane Bullock, George Haddow, Kim Haddow, Damon Coppola) is a wide-ranging look at many aspects of past and ...

A new book makes recommendations on how South Africa can prepare for an age in which disaster seems to be omnipresent.

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 ...