India, Nov. 4 -- When disasters strike - whether floods, earthquakes, forest fires, or cyclones - success in rescue and relief operations often depends not only on the courage of responders but ...

Tropical storm season and the ongoing California wildfires have served as a reminder that COVID-19 isn’t the only disaster in town. But like the pandemic has done for most everything else, it’s made ...

The Cargo Door Fiasco - American Airlines Flight 96: Prelude to a Catastrophe. Of all the airliners certificated over the years by the Federal Aviation Administration and its predecessors, the DC-10 ...

GARBER, Okla. — A fashion designer’s life is headed for disaster in Garber Community Theater’s upcoming production “Design for Disaster.” Kay Arkay, the founder and owner of Arkay Fashions Inc., finds ...

A new exhibit at the Japan House in Los Angeles showcases high-concept thinking about what is possible for how cities and the natural world could coexist in the face of climate change and the natural ...

Design firm Perkins+Will has unveiled the RELi standard that uses a points system similar to the LEED model to guide design for disaster resilience. The goal is to encourage city planners, project ...

With nothing more than a little snippet of javascript, you can place a gigantic, temporary "donate" button over your website. Can “Massive Personalization” Rebuild Quake-Devastated Chile? Architect ...

This 1962 documentary tells the story of a fire that started on November 5th, 1961 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, and over the course of three days destroyed 484 homes, damaged 190 others, and burned over ...

Regarding the Grass Valley work-force housing design proposal: One single car garage for every three houses. What a joke! There will be two cars normally for each house. Drive through any low-cost ...