2019

Although reports of opioid abuse started to become widespread in 2014 and this crisis was declared a public health emergency in October 2017, the "opioid epidemic" actually dates back to the 1990s.

Palu, a city of more than 330,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, was struck by a major earthquake and tsunami one year ago on September 28, 2018.

Sixty years ago, a powerful Category 4-equivalent typhoon named Vera came ashore west of Ise Bay in south-central Japan.

Syndicates in the Lloyd's of London are required to submit a series of market reports in agreement with guidelines set out by Lloyd's.

AIR's Dr. Karthik Ramanathan contributed to a podcast discussing why the Florida Building Code wasn't tough enough for structures in the Panhandle to withstand Michael's Category 5 winds.

Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) is a deadly mosquito-borne alphavirus found in eastern states of the U.S. There is no vaccine and only supportive care is possible for those who fall ill.

Hurricane Dorian has etched its name permanently into the annals of Bahamian history. While Florida escaped a potential multi-billion-dollar event, the Abaco and Grand Bahaman islands were devastated.

When my husband and I visited St. Simons Island it struck us as curious that so many wooden stairs were buried nearly halfway into the beach sand and that very large rocks lined the shore.

Before there were accepted scientific explanations for them, earthquakes were generally blamed on angry gods or the behavior of enormous mythical creatures.

Tsunamis are a coastal phenomenon, and New Zealand is vulnerable to local and regional tsunamis as well as tsunamis from distant trans-ocean basin earthquakes.