Approximately 50 structures have so far been destroyed in the Ravenswood and Harcourt bushfire, according to emergency services. Rescuers managed to recover 13 people from the site overnight as ...

November’s Yellow Line accident should raise more than a few alarm bells this year; it should accelerate the facilitation of much-needed changes to ensure passenger and employee safety. This ...

In my decades representing victims of commercial and construction catastrophes, one pattern has never changed: nearly every “accident” was foreseeable. A missing inspection, an ignored alarm, a ...

I was scrolling through my feed yesterday when it happened again. Cat videos suddenly gave way to catastrophe alerts. That’s modern life – we’ve all become digital disaster detectives without even ...

The National Emergency Management Agency has expressed its readiness to draft a seven-year national disaster risk reduction strategy. The federal agency said this is meant to reduce cases of flooding, ...

Accidents like Chornobyl and Fukushima have damaged the public perception of nuclear power, leading to decreased investment and development. Nuclear power is a low-carbon energy source with a proven ...

BEIJING, Jan 4 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it plans a three-year campaign to tackle problems hampering response times during disasters and accidents including production safety lapses in ...

India, Sept. 2 -- Road accidents remain outside the ambit of India's disaster management framework, weakening the urgency of response. It is time to treat road safety as a national priority, anchored ...