*As the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, National Geographic has unveiled a compelling new project to honor the memory of one of America’s most catastrophic natural disasters. The ...

Using a simulated disaster scenario of a chemical accident on a highway near their school, Livonia High School students soon discovered how important geographic information systems and imaging science ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Curators and conservators are finding innovative solutions to protect our history from disaster. Will some be destroyed despite their best efforts? The Getty Villa in Los Angeles was threatened by the ...

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina drowned much of New Orleans and exposed deep cracks in America’s disaster response and racial divide, Black Panther director Ryan Coogler is helping to tell the ...