Arnold M Howitt and Herman B ‘Dutch’ Leonard say that the threat of large-scale systems failure requires emergency managers to take bold steps to avert or mitigate damage and to be ready for more complex and extensive emergency resp...

Technical Rescue Ops Commander Hugh Price-Hughes describes to Hilary Phillips how Rescue South Africa assisted after the quake, while Emily Hough talks to Lieutenant Rodney S Vaughan of Fairfax County USAR, and reports on New Zealand’s fir...

Emily Hough summarises events that began with a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan, followed by a devastating tsunami that swept miles inland, made even worse by freezing cold temperatures and compounded by the failure of a nuclear reactor ON MARC...