The magnitude 4.4 quake — centered near Highland Park on Monday — came with an early warning from California’s quake alert system. It was not immediately clear how many people got the alert. But it is ...

For communities and nations across Asia and the Pacific, climate-related disasters are no longer distant threats – they are daily realities. Steppe wildfires in Mongolia, floods in Cambodia, lightning ...

The FAO is attempting to raise awareness and understanding of early warning tools and systems in food safety to support their wider use. Early warning systems play a role in reducing the potential ...

Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and warn those at risk. By Max Bearak and Hiroko Tabuchi Officials in Texas ...

Most Californians know that sinking feeling. The ground shakes, jolting you to attention. For a split second, your mind considers the possibilities: A truck driving by? Someone dropping a heavy object ...

The system wasn't working when a tsunami struck Sunday, killing hundreds. Tsunamis have devastated the shorelines of Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries before, but the subsequent deaths and ...

The first step to solving a problem is identifying that you have one. For schools using early-warning systems, though, the problem is identification isn’t enough. Early-warning systems use student ...