Rising disaster costs are driving demand for emergency-response technology, but adoption remains a challenge.

This story was produced by Grist and copublished with WIRED. It is part of Distorted, a Grist series exploring the spread of misinformation in the wake of extreme weather, and is published with ...

Earlier this month, after Hurricane Isaias made landfall on the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane, the emergency ...

National Preparedness Month reminds us that true readiness is built long before an emergency occurs. Yet across the homeland security enterprise, operational leaders face a persistent bottleneck in ...

China’s Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) compares disaster response to ‘fighting a war’ and, since 2022, has used a ...

Emergency managers see artificial intelligence as a promising tool to ease growing workloads, but the biggest hurdle to adoption isn’t a lack of technology, it’s building the governance, procurement ...

China’s use of artificial intelligence to coordinate disaster response could offer an early look at how its military might ...

Before the current wave of AI adoption, disaster recovery focused on backing up and restoring enterprise applications, databases and all the components of traditional IT infrastructure. That remains ...

A hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) system modeled on grasshopper behavior could help allocate medical resources, transport and power during an urban emergency, according to research in the ...

AI is everywhere these days, but one area where it could significantly affect the quality of human life is natural disaster prediction and recovery. Organizations like the National Oceanic and ...