WKU’s Board of Regents approved 10 degrees and certificates at its Friday meeting, including a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Disaster Science. WKU offers a disaster science certificate, but David Brown, ...

Drone technology is poised for remarkable progress across multiple domains that are vital for human development.

On Thursday NASA leadership outlined how 2024’s glitch-plagued Boeing Starliner mission jeopardized astronaut welfare and the ...

NASA is putting the botched 2024 test flight of Boeing Co.’s Starliner capsule in the same category of disaster as the Challenger and Columbia shuttle accidents, underscoring the dramatic failures ...

Disasterville immerses students within full-scale, mission-oriented disaster zones, including wildfires, floods, and earthquakes, to team up and tackle each disaster the same way as the Guard, by ...

In the frantic hours following an offshore oil spill, emergency responders face a destructive decision: let the oil spread or ignite it. Once ignited, it creates an "in-situ" fire pool that stops the ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.

Last year began with the costliest wildfires in American history, as a series of blazes tore across Los Angeles for nearly all of January. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A new study conducted by Climate Central reveals that on average, a billion-dollar disaster occurred in the United States every ten days in 2025. That ten-day increment is up from 82 ...

Extreme weather once again led to multiple billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. in 2025. According to new analysis by Climate Central, 23 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters caused 276 deaths ...