Disaster prevention and control work must be modernized to meet demands in increasingly extreme situations, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a national conference in Hanoi.

Along with death and taxes, natural disasters seem to have to become another unpleasant certainty these days. While losses from natural disasters are increasing, insurance costs are ballooning and ...

BEIJING, Aug 29 (Reuters) - China's top leaders called for greater efforts to enhance work safety and natural disaster prevention, according to the readout of a meeting of the Politburo on Friday. The ...

The Division for the Advancement of Women is organizing, in collaboration with the Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), an Expert Group Meeting on "Environmental ...

Imagining a disaster is scary. Contemplating death, disruption, and devastation can adversely affect our mental health. How could disaster game psychology make stopping disasters fun, effective, and ...