RT @TheEconomist: New York City is marking its 400th birthday this year, and almost no one gives a damn. Yet it is a particularly important….

"In a world of rising threats, someone has to stay awake to keep watch and spur action. This is the job of the local emergency manager. Except that they don’t have the bandwidth they need. In the US, they are under-resourced, isolated and running on fumes".

RT @UNDRR: 📉 Disaster losses are spiralling out of control. #GAR2025 reveals 3 downward spirals turning shocks into systemic crises — and….

Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren, rejecting a practice that public health experts have credited for decades with limiting the spread of infectious diseases.

As Putin was standing alongside fellow autocrats Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un to observe the largest military showcase in history in Beijing, he unleashed the most devastating assault of the war, 502 attack and decoy drones plus 24 missiles, onto Ukraine.

“A House of Dynamite,” is about a nuclear missile over the Pacific on a trajectory to reach the US in 19 mins. “Let's find out how this would really work," says director Kathryn Bigelow. "Let's take people into the rooms where the decisions would be made’”.

Katrina revealed major flaws in catastrophe models that left insurers with record losses. While today’s models are far more sophisticated, significant vulnerabilities remain, which were revealed last year by Hurricane Helene's devastating inland flooding .

Although nine in 10 Americans believe it’s important to be prepared for the worst in the event of a natural disaster — less than half actually have a preparedness plan in place, according to a new study.

RT @sentdefender: In a hot-mic conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin captured by the Chinese-state….

If traffic is congested on a normal day, when an evacuation order is issued, the roadways become gridlocked and people get stuck. This is traffic in Honolulu on July 29, the day a tsunami was forecast to hit Hawaiʻi. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025).

The remnants of Hurricane Ida made its way up the east coast and struck New York City on Sept. 1, 2021, bringing with it devastation. The storm killed 13, including a 2YO child. Many of the victims were trapped by floodwaters in their basement apartments.

RT @nymetrowx: Today is the fourth straight day with a 10/10 rating, bringing the seven-day average weather rating in NYC up to 9.71. Thi….

RT @FerragamoWx: Tonight, 90 years ago, the 1935 Labor Day hurricane made landfall on Long Key, FL with sustained winds of 185 mph. Everyt….

Experts from around the globe, including two Nobel laureates, worked for months to determine the risks of creating so-called "mirror life". Ultimately, they concluded, mirror cells could inflict "unprecedented and irreversible harm" on our world

The agency is also on the front lines in communities across the country, delivering crucial but often less visible wins — such as containing an outbreak of H.I.V. cases in Scott County, Ind., or protecting residents in East Palestine, Ohio, from toxic chemical exposure.

The C.D.C. has led efforts to eradicate smallpox, increase access to lifesaving vaccinations and significantly reduce smoking rates.

When the CDC was created in 1946, life expectancy in the United States was 66 years. Today, it is more than 78 years. It is public health that has played the biggest role in improving both the length and quality of life in our nation.

A US invasion or blockade of Venezuela would cause an oil price spike (further inflaming inflation), strain U.S. diplomacy, deepen political divides at home, and increase the risk of great-power confrontation (per ChatGPT).

An online group that calls itself Purgatory said that it was behind a number of recent hoax emergency calls that drew a heavy law enforcement response to college campuses across the US and were timed to coincide with the start of the school year.

RT @FoxNews: On this day 28 years ago, Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris. The news of her passing shocked the world as the….