Mother Nature has been testing us for ages, long before we knew about climate change. She doesn’t care about our fancy degrees or emergency plans. Who could forget when COVID-19 made us all experts on ...

These aren’t just minor glitches; they’re examples of technological disasters that caused major headaches, cost a lot of ...

Floods, wildfires, heatwaves and storms are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. Emergency systems around the world are being tested not only by the scale of these ...

Scientists and emergency managers are trying to learn from disasters past. The amount of damage caused by billion-dollar disasters reached an unprecedented amount in 2024, and the total cost of the ...

Eliot Arts Magnet Middle School burned when the Eaton Fire swept through Altadena, Calif., in January 2025. JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images As Los Angeles County students begin returning to school ...

Can California learn from other states about housing recovery after a natural disaster? That’s the idea behind Assembly Bill 239 by Assemblymember John Harabedian, a freshman Democrat from Pasadena ...

The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days. Among the devastation were 11 public and private schools and 30 child care facilities. In all, the fires ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, University of North Dakota (THE CONVERSATION) As Los Angeles ...