While no one particularly enjoys them, annual emergency management drills serve a vital purpose for school districts and are ...

A first-of a-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America's preparedness for major solar ...

Nearly 20 agencies gathered on Wednesday as the Cass County Local Emergency Planning Committee held its annual hazardous materials exercise at the Walton Community Fire Department. The exercise, ...

Local officials and emergency management experts say that Louisiana could face a disaster on top of a disaster in the event ...

Lafayette Consolidated Goverbnebt and other government agencies may be paying for more of the cost to recovery from disasters ...

As Florida emergency response officials conduct their annual statewide hurricane preparedness exercise this week, emergency ...

Ironically, the exercise last May was interrupted by a real scenario, when Earth was hit by the strongest solar storm in two decades ...

A first-of its-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed ... and at a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) site in Denver, Colorado, to learn how ready they were for a major ...

Recent intense solar flares, originating from sunspot AR4087, have triggered global concerns about potential space weather ...

Scientists claim we’re not prepared for the solar storms threatening Earth, which could cause cataclysmic blackouts, grid breakdowns and even an “internet apocalypse,” according to a frightening ...

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has released a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to streamline and ...

Some 13,000 years ago, the sun emitted a huge belch of radiation that bombarded Earth and left its imprint in ancient tree rings. That solar storm was the most powerful one ever recorded. The next ...