News by subject: NAT

With the right information and often for less than $250, homeowners can protect themselves from the increasing risks of basement floods, according to a report from the University of Waterloo. A new, multi-year project carried out by Waterloo's Intact...

Eighteen months after Hurricane Irma devastated Florida and The Keys, the area still faces an acute shortage of affordable workforce housing.  PBS News Hour's segment on the Florida Keys housing crisis featured the work of Maggie Whitcomb, founder of...

Consumer Watchdog said today that a California wildfire victims' relief fund could be important, but that the proposal put forth today by Governor Newsom, in legislative hands, threatens to take rights and dollars from wildfire victims, ratepayers...

As the Florida Panhandle marks six months after Michael made landfall as a devastating category 4 hurricane, Alley Cat Allies is continuing to offer its assistance and leadership to the recovery. The Alley Cat Allies Feline Frenzy® on the Panhandle...

California has recently had its most destructive fire season with widespread power outages that made it difficult and or impossible for some to escape.  With the loss of electricity, garage door openers were impacted and deaths were attributed to...

The winter storm that hit Ontario on March 14 and continued through Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia until March 16, caused over $124 million in insured damage, according to Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ).* Bringing dramatic...

PS Industriestm Incorporated is now a premier distributor of FloodStop Barriers, a rapidly deployable flood protection system manufactured by Barrier Solutions in Benson, Minnesota. The FloodStop Barrier is a one-of-a-kind flood protection system...

Emergency Reporting (ER), a leader in cloud-based Fire and EMS records management, is pleased to announce its partnership with PSTrax, the industry-leading system for paperless operations checks and inventory management. ER's Fire and EMS Records...

Call for Code 2019, created by leading philanthropic producer David Clark, CEO of David Clark Cause and Founding Partner IBM, is the largest engagement of developers in history. Call for Code was created in 2018 to challenge the 23 million developers...

Ontario's deep freeze at the beginning of February was quickly followed by warm weather and rain, which led to snowmelt, ice jams and flooding. Then in early March, heavy rain, and in some areas snow, followed by warmer temperatures, also led to...

At PLAE, the mission of the company is to encourage everyone to play, no matter their age. But in certain parts of the world, people don't even have access to play ? because their everyday community is focused on survival. On the island of Virgin...

At PLAE, the mission of the company is to encourage everyone to play, no matter their age. But in certain parts of the world, people don't even have access to play ? because their everyday community is focused on survival. On the island of Virgin...

As soon as the floods hit the Northern parts of Iran, the mobilization forces of the Headquarters for Executing Imam Khomeini's Order (EIKO) known as Setad rushed to help the people who were struck by the floods and its consequences a few hours...

Eight U-Haul® self-storage facilities across seven cities are offering 30 days of free self-storage to residents who have been impacted by flooding in southern Louisiana. Rising water from steady storms have caused damage...

In response to the recent Missouri River flooding, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), Inc. is expediting access to care for members who live in affected areas in Iowa and Nebraska. Through our national...

Cane Bay Cares, a service initiative of Cane Bay Partners VI LLLP, was awarded Nonprofit of the Year by the St. Croix Chamber of Commerce on Saturday during the organization's annual Awards Gala. "We're humbled to even be considered for such an...

IMMUSEtm and Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) provide lifesaving aid to the people of Mozambique in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai. Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall near Beira City in central Mozambique in the early hours of March 15th. The...

Today, the National Tropical Weather Conference awarded nonprofit Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) President and CEO Leslie Chapman-Henderson the William Gray Award in honor of her twenty-year legacy of service to the cause of hurricane...

With temperatures warming up across the country, the countdown to summer travel season has officially begun. This year, as travelers start scouting out destinations, they're picking places where they can feel good and do good at the same time. To...

Now more than ever, communities need help adapting to the frequent and intensifying weather events caused by climate change. Reducing the impact of natural disasters such as flooding and wildfires is critical to keeping Canadian families safe,...

Thanks to the generosity of Canadian drug and medical device manufacturers, and its financial donors and volunteers, Health Partners International of Canada (HPIC) is mobilizing immediate medical relief for those affected by Cyclone Idai in...

Julphar, one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the Middle East and Africa, has pledged its support to the Zimbabwean government to help boost the country's healthcare sector, days after a devastating tropical storm battered the country....

Members of the media are invited to attend an important infrastructure event regarding storm protection for Hamilton with the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, the Honourable Filomena Tassi,...

Members of the media are invited to attend an important infrastructure event regarding storm protection for Hamilton with the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, the Honourable Filomena Tassi,...

AccuWeather Global Weather Center ? After an active Atlantic hurricane season in 2018, AccuWeather forecasters are predicting 2019 to result in a near- to slightly above-normal season with 12 to 14 storms. Of those...

Now more than ever, communities need help adapting to the frequent and intensifying weather events caused by climate change. Reducing the impact of natural disasters such as flooding and wildfires is critical to keeping Canadian families safe,...

This week, Queens County Supreme Court Justice Bernice Siegal denied the defendant's summary judgment motion and motion for trial severances in Heeran v. Long Island Power Authority & National Grid.  The judge held that...

FEMA reported that 80% of households affected by Hurricane Harvey were not protected with Flood coverage. Several factors contributed to this tragic statistic, including the false sense of security many had of not living in a "high-risk flood zone."...

Jacobs -- The fall of 2013 marked one of the costliest natural disasters in Colorado history ? causing nearly $4 billion in destruction. Extensive rainfall in Big Thompson Canyon resulted in flow surges exceeding the 500-year flood event, completely...

On April 1, Dutch Bros Coffee will reopen its doors in Paradise, California, nearly five months after the community was devastated by wildfires. This was California's most destructive fire in history, with over 14,000 homes lost and approximately...

In the deadly wake of Cyclone Idai, Israel's Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer is joining forces with IsraAID and international teams to address the humanitarian crisis. Utilizing an emergency response unit of selected doctors and medical experts,...

On March 30, Friends of Puerto Rico will release Café Ama at the Chocolate and Coffee Expo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Café Ama is a coffee that survived Hurricane Maria with a mission to uplift communities by empowering the Maria Generation by...

About 50 volunteers from two states will fan out across Hamburg on Saturday, offering a helping hand and delivering a sack lunch and bottled water as residents clean up from record flooding that left two-thirds of the town under water. The...

Care For Life, an Arizona-based anti-poverty charity working in Mozambique, is pleading with the public for donations to save the lives of those endangered by Hurricane Idai. Emergency donations are being taken on www.CareForLife.org.  An estimated...

National Airlines B747-400F flew from both Toronto, Canada and Amsterdam, Netherlands to Cyclone Idai-affected Mozambique with 70 thousand kilos of relief materials from the Canadian Red Cross Society. Cyclone...

Now more than ever, communities need help adapting to the frequent and intensifying weather events caused by climate change. Reducing the impact of natural disasters such as flooding is critical to keeping Canadian families safe, protecting local...

Now more than ever, communities need help adapting to the frequent and intensifying weather events caused by climate change. Reducing the impact of natural disasters such as flooding and wildfires is critical to keeping Canadian families safe,...

Absolute Total Care and Pee Dee Community Action Partnership (PDCAP) held two outreach events in March for the residents of Sellers and Nichols, South Carolina. The events, part of the 2019 "Rise Above the Storm" Outreach Project, gathered the...

Author Michelle Mandro and the "Wine Country Women of Sonoma County" are raising funds to aid Sonoma County flood victims. Between March 25 and April 30, $10 dollars from every advance sale of the soon-to-be-released book Wine Country Women of Sonoma...

Today, AshBritt CEO Brittany Perkins Castillo joined the TxStrong Disaster Recovery panel at the 2019 TxSWANA Conference. Moderated by John Buri of Tetra Tech, the panel discussed lessons learned and best practices in emergency response and recovery...

Now more than ever, communities need help adapting to the frequent and intensifying weather events caused by climate change. Reducing the impact of natural disasters such as flooding and wildfires is critical to keeping Canadian families safe,...

Now more than ever, communities need help adapting to the frequent and intensifying weather events caused by climate change. Reducing the impact of natural disasters such as flooding and wildfires is critical to keeping Canadian families safe,...

As the scope of the devastation brought on by Cyclone Idai continues to unfold in Southern Africa, Canadian aid agencies are working together to rush emergency assistance to survivors. Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe have been hit by what may be the...

Members of the media are invited to attend an important infrastructure event about flood mitigation with the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities; Paul Lefebvre, Member of Parliament for Sudbury and...

Members of the media are invited to attend an important infrastructure event about flood mitigation with the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities; Paul Lefebvre, Member of Parliament for Sudbury and...

Now more than ever, communities need help adapting to the frequent and intensifying weather events caused by climate change. Reducing the impact of natural disasters such as flooding is critical to keeping Canadian families safe, protecting local...

Members of the media are invited to attend an important infrastructure event regarding flood and storm mitigation for Toronto and York Region with the Honourable Francois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities; Member of...

The Canadian Red Cross is sending its emergency field hospital to Mozambique to bring urgent health care to communities that have been devastated by Tropical Cyclone Idai.  The hospital will be staffed by 25 Canadian aid workers, including doctors,...

iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc. ("iAnthus" or the "Company") , which owns, operates, and partners with best-in-class regulated cannabis operations across the United States, is pleased to announce today that it has received approval from the Florida...

Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Israel's national hospital, is mobilizing a four-person team of humanitarian medical experts and doctors to Beira, Mozambique where a deadly cyclone has killed nearly 450 people and left a devastating path of...