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An AI analysis of Google Street View images across 16 states shows that damaged buildings in poorer communities often remain vacant for years, while wealthier areas rebuild faster and better.

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It took engineers nearly half a century to determine why the SS Schenectady, while docked quietly in a harbor off Portland, Ore. one day, suddenly snapped in half. For local residents, the event was ...

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Discover groundbreaking technologies designed to revolutionize disaster preparedness and rescue operations in the wake of natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods. This video ...

Insight into Hurricane Katrina told by those who lived through it. How systemic failures from local and national government agencies helped throw the disaster into overdrive. How responses to national ...

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Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are just ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...