I can't remember how I got through the costliest natural disaster in US history as a child after my house was flattened in 1992, and that's a testament to the.
I am a weather nerd (among many other forms of nerd). Every day, I check the National Weather Service's 5 and 7 day rainfall forecasts. I think I started doing.
Five years today since the Fukushima earthquake and subsequent nuclear power plant disaster. Some links for this anniversary. The power plant is still leaking radioactive substances into the ocean, although.
Disasters, however "natural," are a wonderful (well, horrible really) entry point into exposing to the public to deep fissures on inequality in a society. That's true whether they are earthquakes,.
My good friend Jacob Remes has an interesting piece up at the Atlantic. You may remember him from his entry in the This Day in Labor History series on Davis.
One point that many on the social justice side of the climate change issue repeat over and over is that the impacts of climate change are going to be felt.
Well, the US avoided any hurricanes this year so maybe things are going OK in the weather world, right? Oh dear. Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines at 4am local.
There's no reason to think that the United States is more drought-immune than ancient societies that were destroyed by it: More than 3,200 years ago, life was abuzz in and.
