All regions of Puerto Rico battled floodwaters as Hurricane Maria regained “major hurricane status” off the coast of the Dominican Republic.

Millions of people who evacuated before Hurricane Irma are starting to go home. Crews are bringing aid, but the recovery effort will take weeks or even month...

The DRC is a competition of robot systems and software teams vying to develop robots capable of assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters. It was designed to be extremely difficult. Participating teams, representing some of the most advanced robotics research and development o...

Most of the lyrics to “Almost Like Praying,” the benefit single for Puerto Rican hurricane relief organized by Lin-Manuel Miranda, are the names of towns in Puerto Rico, passionately sung and rapped by a multigenerational assembly of 20 American and Latin-American musicians including Marc Anthony, J

Millions of people are facing a long, difficult road to recovery after Irma’s week-long deadly rampage through the Caribbean and southeastern United States.

Buddy, engineered by Team Mojavaton, participated in the DARPA Robotics Challenge trials in December, 2013. The goal of the competition was to encourage the development of robots that can assist humans in natural and man-made disasters. Though Buddy experienced a mechanical malfunction during the tr...

Two residents from St. Martin island's two nations, the French St. Martin and the Dutch St. Maarten, describe Hurricane Irma’s destruction during a direrct hit to the island in September, 2017.

Video taken at 6.30 25th August 2011 in Nassau Bahamas. The hurricane at that stage was 2 hours from passing Nassau.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University created a robotic snake that can crawl, climb, swim and scale flights of stairs. These versatile robots, which are designed for reaching human inaccessible areas, could be valuable tools for disaster relief.

The Sanibel Causeway was destroyed by the Ian hurricane storm, cutting off access to the barrier island on Florida on September 28, 2022.