Is Amtrak vulnerable to a terrorist attack? Center for Resilience Studies Executive Director Sean Burke recently sat down with WCVB Boston to discuss the threat of a…
California Gas Leak Temporarily Contained After three months of leaking methane gas in Porter Ranch, the Southern California Gas Company announced on February 11 that…
2017 Federal Budget decreases funding for Pre-Disaster Mitigation program President Obama delivered his fiscal 2017 federal budget to Congress in early February, where it has already faced criticism from…
Iraq’s Mosul Dam risks catastrophic collapse Officials from the United States, Iraq, and the United Nations have warned that the Mosul Dam in Iraq risks a…
Rail Security in the Wake of Brussels Center for Resilience Studies Executive Director Sean Burke was recently featured in a WCVB report on rail security in the…
DC Metro faces uncertain future in wake of several failures Top officials from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) warned riders that they may be required to shut down…
Katrina at 10: Reflections on a Human-Made Disaster “The flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina was a human-made disaster, not a natural one. The flood-protection system for…
Don’t get Ebola in Missouri “Stephen E. Flynn, political science professor at Northeastern University, explains that the Ebola story isn’t a story of federal government…
Federal Disaster Declared in West Virginia After Flooding Kills At Least 25 People After a period of heavy rains on Thursday night dumped over nine inches in 24 hours throughout West Virginia, a…
Delta Airlines Outage At 2:30 AM Monday, August 8, 2016, Delta Airlines grounded flights around the globe after a power outage caused an…
Louisiana Floods On Thursday, August 11, severe rainstorms led to intense flooding in Southern Louisiana while residents fled to safety. Despite a…
California Wildfires In California, there are currently four rampant wildfires decimating the West Coast. Since Saturday, August 13, Clayton fire has burned…
