From severe storms to tornadoes, natural disaster statistics reveal that disasters are occurring more frequently and with ...

Thomson Reuters Foundation today announces the launch of a pioneering, first-of-its-kind service – The Emergency Information Service (EIS). Developed to respond to major natural disasters around the ...

Extreme weather is at once unfathomably large and intensely personal. From afar, the shape of a disaster is relatively clear, even if the details aren’t: Flash floods, like the ones that hit Texas, ...

Surveillance and exchange of gathered information guides emergency response as well as long-term planning. This chapter examines disaster epidemiology, emergency information systems throughout the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As Hurricane Helene moves towards making landfall in Florida on Thursday evening as a Category 3 hurricane, Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has ...

In July 2024, the National Academies Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies hosted a public workshop to discuss opportunities to support the capacity of ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission has voted to launch a review of its system for collecting data on network outages and restoration during major disasters. The effort, the agency ...

Emergency Information Systems (EIS) collect data about the effects of a disaster during the impact phase, the response phase, and the early stages of recovery. EIS consist of integrated sets of files, ...