ISWA manual shows that disasters and conflicts in West Asia generate vast amounts of hazardous and mixed waste that, if poorly managed, quickly become a second crisis threatening health, the ...

Climate change and environmental degradation are worsening the impacts of disasters on vulnerable people – making it vital that environmental and humanitarian organizations work more closely together, ...

Editor’s Note: Anita van Breda is Senior Director of Environment and Disaster Management at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), based in Washington, DC. She has 20 years of experience working to apply ...

To build capacity in green disaster risk management and response, WWF-Pacific staff and partners, recently underwent a three day ‘Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit’(GRRT) training in Suva. To ...

On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard, Captain Robert Salmond ordered the women and ...

One evening this spring, I was out to dinner when a curious thing caught my attention. The Weather Channel was on TV in the background, and every few minutes the camera cut to a radar shot of Fort ...

A sudden pause in federal assistance is sowing disarray and outrage across the country, throwing into doubt a wide range of programs that help protect Americans from disasters, provide access to clean ...

The bombardment of Gaza has left contaminated soil, blackened water and mounds of garbage spreading disease and pollution; a toxic legacy that will last generations, and extend beyond its borders.

For years, we believed the Himalayas were a climatic sanctuary—untouched, pristine, and resilient to the turbulence of modernization. But what happens when mountain cities begin to mimic the dynamics ...