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Each year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren't always …
Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be "e;making sure that people are able to get enough to eat."e; The United States spends about five …
Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in …
"e;A classic. I can't recommend it enough."e;--Chris HayesOn Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. …
Each year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren't always …
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day on which the temperature would eventually climb to 106 degrees. It was the start of an unprecedented heat wave that …
The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions …
No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "e;Tornado Alley,"e; near a nuclear facility or in a …
In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called …
Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be 'making sure that people are able to get enough to eat'. The United States spends about five billion …