Manmade or technological disasters are unpredictable, can spread across geographical boundaries, may be unpreventable, and may have limited physical damage but long-term effects. Some disasters in ...

More and more people are building their homes in woodland settings in or near forests, rural areas, or remote mountain sites. As residential areas expand into relatively untouched wildlands, these ...

You’ve probably noticed that disasters seem to be getting weirder and more intense. Every time you turn on the news, there’s another earthquake, hurricane, or wildfire that seems worse than the last.

As my L.A. County Fire partner and I were trying to get ahead of the flames, we drove up a narrow road into a canyon neighborhood above the endless sea of homes in the flat valley below. Appropriately ...

As COVID-19 first broke in March 2020 and California wildfires raged, one thing became clear: The field of psychiatry needed a new way of thinking about and responding to complicated, overlapping ...

Successive and severe natural disasters that have struck Vietnam since the beginning of this year have left 409 people dead or missing and 727 others injured, with estimated economic losses of more ...