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Maine's congressional delegation is asking that a fisheries disaster be declared for the state's shellfish industry to help with losses from this summer's clam flat closures due to red tide.
St. Louis is perking up with jokes about the $200,000 cup of coffee. But officials at a college and its insurance company aren't laughing.
A defense contractor said Tuesday it will start building portable shelters for natural disasters and war zones that quickly unfold like a Transformer toy.
Text messaging, Twitter and social networking Web sites could help families stay in touch in the wake of a disaster, a national safety group said Tuesday.
The government could end up repeating mistakes seen after Hurricane Katrina without a better plan for housing people after a catastrophe, the Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog told lawmakers Wednesday.
It is a forgotten tale from an almost forgotten saga.
The rampant growth of urban slums around the world and weather extremes linked to climate change have sharply increased the risks from "megadisasters" such as devastating floods and cyclones, a U.N. report said Sunday.
They're clean, shutterless and decorated with a rainbow of beige hues. They're mobile homes built for future disaster victims and, so far, have safe levels of formaldehyde.
A South Florida county that rode high through the housing boom earlier this decade, then crashed hard when the foreclosure crisis struck, declared a state of economic emergency on Tuesday.
I am a disaster addict. I watch movies and TV shows that focus on the end of the world. “Knowing” — starring Nicolas Cage — is just the latest in a long line of apocalyptic epics. Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road” will be released as a film soon. It’s ultimate disaster porn for me because it is humanized and simultaneously abstract. I follow asteroid telemetry news and read up about the latest in germ warfare speculation and rogue nuclear proliferation.
President Barack Obama has declared North Dakota a federal disaster area because of statewide flooding.
Just five years ago, Port St. Lucie was America's fastest-growing large city. Then the foreclosure crisis slammed it like a hurricane.
A senior figure in Iceland's main governing party said Thursday that she expects early elections to be held this year, as protesters called for the government to step down over the country's severe economic crisis.
As homeland security head, Janet Napolitano wants to establish a long-term plan for housing disaster victims, said a senator who spoke with the Arizona governor.
Shivering, weak and injured in a snow cave, on a mountain he and two climbing companions had tried to conquer, Kelly James managed to reach his wife on his cell phone.
In a sign that political instability and natural disasters can fuel technology spending, IBM Corp. plans to invest $300 million building new centers that can store companies' sensitive data and deliver it remotely in the event of a meltdown.
The government may house disaster victims in trailers this hurricane season as a last resort, despite promises never to use them again because of high levels of formaldehyde found in trailers used after the Katrina catastrophe.
Within 24 hours of China's deadly quake, some 20,000 troops converged on the disaster area to help dig out the dead and injured, and military planes and trucks ferried in another 30,000 reinforcements.
One earned a football scholarship years after burns and lung damage kept him in the hospital for two months. Another poured her grief into preventing other alcohol-fueled crashes and became president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. A third began speaking publicly about the tragedy only after two decades of staring at scars in the mirror.
The bronze medallion embedded in the pavement behind the Commercial Bank of Texas is easy to overlook. About the size of a DVD, it barely registers as a bump for the cars pulling into the drive-thru window.
Hurricane Katrina has many legacies for the Bush White House, none pleasant. One is the guarantee that as soon as disaster strikes in the United States, President Bush's every move is closely scrutinized to gauge the speed and tone of his response to the suffering.
Senators from the Plains states are trying to persuade colleagues to create a permanent disaster fund for farmers despite objections from some farm state senators, environmentalists and the White House.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is quietly drawing up plans for a handful of disasters: devastating earthquakes beneath San Francisco and St. Louis and catastrophic storms in South Florida and Hawaii, FEMA's chief said Thursday.
In the 1950s, American children were taught to "duck and cover" in the case of a nuclear explosion. Now, Asia is stepping up its campaign to prepare school children for calamities.
Zombie Lies Don't Die ... WSJ Spins Discredited Claim that Programs for the Poor Caused Housing CrisisThe idea that affordable housing initiatives were responsible for the crash is a widely discredited myth.
The Mother of All Bail Outs...Coming Soon!!From the Executive Summary: "The nation is watching closely as California struggles to avoid going broke.
Glenn Beck scores another coup!President Obama will give an interview to Fox News' Major Garrett, Drudge reports. The interview will take place in China next week and comes just one day after it was reported that Obama Communications Director Anita Dunn -- the so-called general in the administration's war aga …
Jail Time, Fines and other Penalties for Those without Health Care InsuranceDuring an exclusive interview with ABC News' Jake Tapper today, President Obama said that penalties are appropriate for people who try to "free ride" the health care system but stopped short of endorsing the threat of jail time for those who refuse to pay a fine for not hav …
Dozens Of Birds Hit By San Francisco Bay Oil Spill ALAMEDA, Calif. -- More than 30 birds have been rescued after an oil spill last week in San Francisco Bay, and many other dead ones have been found, officials said Monday.
Tree Snaps, Killing 10-Year-Old Trick-Or-TreaterPELHAM, N.H. -- A 10-year-old boy was killed on Halloween night after a birch tree snapped and struck him. At about 6:30 p.m. Saturday, a branch of a birch tree on Fineview Circle in Pelham snapped about 4 feet from its base, Pelham fire officials said.
Documentary: American CasinoAnyone who already understands the current economic disaster will find little new in "American Casino." But for the rest of us, this "Frontline"-esque documentary is at turns eye-opening (a former mortgage broker smilingly admits that he, and everyone he worked with, regularly al …
Typhoon Mirinae barrels through Philippines, worsens flooding Typhoon Mirinae, the fourth in a month to hit the Philippines, barreled through the main island of Luzon in just a few hours early Saturday morning, the country's weather forecast bureau said. There is not yet report of casualties.
Man Who Launched Flare Gets 90-Day Sentence For Starting Plant BlazeKurtis Popp, who admittedly lit a military flare that eventually destroyed portion of the Patrick Cudahy plant this July, was sentenced Tuesday.
Homeowner Says Cal Fire Started 'Loma' Fire (Video)Frank Dido, who lost his home in the Loma Fire, says Cal Fire needs to take responsibility for the blaze that has forced hundreds to evacuate.
Hundreds Forced To Evacuate As 'Loma' Wildfire RagesEUREKA CANYON, Calif. -- Hundreds of homes remain evacuated on Monday as a wildfire continues to burn in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Rebuilding an education in quake-hit L'AquilaThe earthquake that struck L'Aquila last April destroyed many of the city's schools. For the last in our series Hunger to Learn, Duncan Kennedy has visited the Italian city to hear why pupils there no longer take education for granted.
How to prepare for an earthquakeUnlike natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes are an "out of sight, out of mind" proposition. But there's no question that geologists reckon we're due for a major quake.
Five Tips to Avoiding Total Disaster as a NovelistGreat tips on the writing process or rather things not to do. Nonetheless, the advice is informative and worth the read.
A Powerful Volcanic Blast That Took Scientists By SurpriseSome of the world's baddest volcanoes, like Chile's Chaitén volcano that erupted in 2008, are actually even worse than scientists previously thought.
US Troops Help Philippines Relief Effort as Storm Toll RisesThe Philippines has been ravaged by two back to back tropical storms blocking roads and washing away bridges, stretching govenment resourses to the breaking point.
Ralph Lauren Ad Gathers Criticsim, Mockery; Company Threatens Lawsuits.Ralph Lauren put out an ad which consisted of a retouched photo of a model. The model is made to look impossibly thin, such that her proportions seem anatomically improbable.
How To Keep The Planet Of The Apes From HappeningA Citizens Guide on How to Keep The Planet of the Apes from HappeningProvided by the U.S.Commission For Keeping The Planet of the Apes from Happening / A Joint Office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Homeland Security
Newsroom | Report Card for America's InfrastructureWe are crumbling beneath our feet.
India's drought turns to record floods While the world's attention is focused on the disaster zones of Samoa and Sumatra, India has been gripped by the worst floods on record. The Indian authorities are continuing relief efforts in the country's south where about 250 people have died as a result of the flooding.
Teen Girl Saves 10 Relatives From FireSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A teenage girl talking on her cell phone late into the night helped save her family from a fire at their Meadowview rental home early Monday.
Video: The week after the flash floods of typhoon 'Ondoy' (Ketsana)WHEN storm "Ondoy" ("Ketsana") struck on Sept. 26, the morning after was a picture of a devastated capital, a people in anguish and a nation at its weakest.
Dam water release angle in the disastrous Ondoy flash floods[Manila, Philippines] tail end of a live presscon of gma and gibo and the national disaster coordinating council (ndcc) trying their darndest to appear like they have been and continue to be on top of the situation, doing the best that can be done given the unexpected unpreceden …
They Have the Power to Evacuate the Entire East Coast(CNN) -- When an earthquake threatens to turn part of an ocean into fast-moving walls of water, tsunami warning scientists can do nothing for the first five minutes except wait for information.
Waves Big, But No Damage Reported Along California, Oregon CoastsHALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- Officials in the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Peninsula are reporting a quiet night after a tsunami advisory was issued Tuesday for the coastal areas of California and Oregon.
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