In response to the tragic consequences of the recent earthquake in Haiti, questions have arisen regarding how to handle leave requests from employees who may be involved in emergency response efforts.

In response to campus-wide interest in the Haiti earthquake, four Cornell professors took part in a panel offering a multidisciplinary approach to the implications of the disaster, with each speaker ...

After a powerful earthquake struck outside Bangladesh's crowded capital Dhaka on November 21, images were shared in posts ...

Haiti also probably was not as prepared as it should have been for an earthquake, he said. But Darbro said even if good planning has been done, the ability of local officials to respond may still be ...

While the causes of individual disasters are natural, more than anything what makes Haiti a constant site of catastrophe is its heart-tugging social ills, disaster experts say. It starts with poverty, ...

When it comes to natural disasters, the little island of Haiti seems to have a bull's-eye on it. That's because of a killer combination of geography, poverty, social problems, slipshod building ...

Experts estimate death toll from 7.0 earthquake could be in in the thousands. Jan 13, 2009— -- Haiti has barely begun to assess the devastation caused by the biggest earthquake to rock the area ...

The TPS program for Haiti is now set to expire on Feb. 3, and it is expected to affect 352,959 Haitian migrants. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem acknowledged that the situation in Haiti, which ...

In rebuilding Haiti, cement maker, shippers positioned to profit. Jan. 20, 2010— -- Harsh realities have always been a part of life in Haiti. And in the week since the earthquake, the world's ...

Those of us who cover the developing world deal increasingly today with a new kind of inflation: disaster inflation. I first really noticed it in 1998, while reporting Hurricane Mitch. The storm ...