Tag: Disaster planning and response

SANG-E-ATASH, Afghanistan -- Fed by rain and snowmelt from mountains, this valley nestled among northwestern Afghanistan’s jagged peaks was once ...

The Canadian government is sending in more air force personnel to the Pacific coast Canadian province of British Columbia to ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says “it will take a long time” until the regions damaged by devastating floods in July ...

LES CAYES, Haiti -- Haitians left hungry and homeless by a devastating earthquake swarmed relief trucks and in some cases ...

Officials say two doctors at hospitals treating earthquake victims in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince have been kidnapped, forcing one of ...

Mexico’s Caribbean coast is readying for the arrival of Hurricane Grace, evacuating some smaller hotels, opening shelters and suspending ferry ...

Rescuers have recovered more bodies from the site of severe flooding that devastated a town in northern Turkey, bringing the ...