Despite the U.S. experiencing its highest number of billion-dollar disasters in 2017, a new survey found two-thirds of American homeowners are still unprepared in the event of a disaster.
Twenty-two percent of Americans who have ever had to evacuate their homes due to the threat of a natural disaster, according to new data from YouGov Omnibus.
A new Purdue-created online platform could help first responders better monitor areas where hurricanes make landfall, thus help people caught in weather-related disasters.
For the third year in a row the potential of a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, tornado, flood or wildfire, is the type of threat that causes most concern among Americans.
According to research that examined false tweets from Hurricane Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing, 86 to 91 percent of active Twitter users spread misinformation, and that nearly as many did nothing to correct it.
Nine in 10 emergency physicians responding to a new poll say that in the past month, they have experienced shortages or absences of critical medicines in their emergency departments.
Despite an uptick in national disasters over the past few years, members of the general public still admit they are not fully prepared, a new survey finds.
