List of Natural Disasters articles
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quake-crop Watch Every Recorded Earthquake Around the World in the Last 15 Years (in Under 4 Minutes)
Every one of the world’s recorded earthquakes over the last 15 years turned into one terrifying animation.
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gettyimages-613160100 Death Toll In Haiti Spikes As Hurricane Matthews Arrives In the U.S.
President Obama tells those in harm's way to evacuate ahead of the storm.
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rothkopf How Not to Be a Civilization
Mother Nature is using her words. Are we smart enough to heed them?
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TOPSHOT - A man stands on a damaged home after a strong earthquake hit Amatrice on August 24, 2016. Central Italy was struck by a powerful, 6.2-magnitude earthquake in the early hours, which has killed at least three people and devastated dozens of mountain villages. Numerous buildings had collapsed in communities close to the epicenter of the quake near the town of Norcia in the region of Umbria, witnesses told Italian media, with an increase in the death toll highly likely. / AFP / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images) More People Will Die in Italy’s Next Earthquake
Why are moderate quakes still killing hundreds of people in a wealthy country? Corruption and political ineptitude.
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Sidoarjo top image Life After the Mud
In Indonesia, the world’s largest mud volcano has been erupting continuously for 10 years. A wealthy family's gas company may be to blame. But it’s the poor who’ve paid the price.
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Muslim pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat near Mecca as they perform one of the Hajj rituals late on October 3, 2014. The pilgrims perform a series of rituals during the annual Hajj. They circumambulate the kaaba seven times, runs back and forth between the hills of Al-Safa and Al-Marwah, drink from the Zamzam Well, goes to the plains of Mount Arafat to stand in vigil, and throws stones in a ritual Stoning of Devil. The pilgrims then shave their heads, perform a ritual of animal sacrifice, and celebrate Eid al-Adha holiday. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images) Hajj Closed to Iranians After Year of Discord
Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia are set to keep tens of thousands from the anual pilgrimage.
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WASHINGTON, USA - MARCH 10: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a joint press conference with President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, USA on March 10, 2016. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Can Justin Trudeau See the Forest Fire for the Trees?
Canada’s photogenic prime minister promises a new type of enlightened, environment-friendly leadership. But he's still hooked on dirty oil.
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GettyImages-501018320_960 Who Is Really Putting Nepal Back Together?
Half a year after Nepal's devastating earthquake, its the smaller community organizations that are helping the country rebuild, while the giants of disaster relief lag behind.
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Haitian sugar cane workers rally in front of the Haitian embassy demanding the Haitian passports needed to regularize their migration status in the Dominican Republic, in Santo Domingo on June 1, 2015. AFP PHOTO/Erika SANTELICES (Photo credit should read ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images) The Dominican Republic’s Shameful Deportation Legacy
The Dominican Republic is desperately trying to win back the world's respect after its expulsion of Haitians. History, however, stands in its way.
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GRAPHIC CONTENT Saudi emergency personnel stand near bodies of Hajj pilgrims at the site where at least 717 were killed and hundreds wounded in a stampede in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2015. The stampede, the second deadly accident to strike the pilgrims this year, broke out during the symbolic stoning of the devil ritual, the Saudi civil defence service said. AFP PHOTO / STR The Deadliest Stop on the Road on Mecca
Mina, where pilgrims take part in a symbolic stoning of the devil, has been the site of a disproportionate share of hajj deaths.
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GettyImages-97631812 5 Times Obama Was About to, but Didn’t, Have a Foreign-Policy ‘Katrina Moment’
Pundits love to speculate when Obama will have his "Katrina moment." So far, they've been disappointed.
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BRIDGWATER, ENGLAND - MARCH 10: A masked protester stands in front of flags at the gates to the Hinkley Point nuclear power station to mark the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster in Japan on March 10, 2012 near Bridgwater, England. Protestors planned to blockade the site at Hinkley, which is located on the Bristol Channel and has been earmarked for a potential new nuclear power station, for 24 hours starting today. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Fukushima’s Dangerous Aftershocks
Japan is spooling up its nuclear reactors and piling up reprocessed fuel. And the tremors of these policy choices can be felt all the way in Iran.
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Screen Shot 2015-08-12 at 5crop Watch the Massive Explosion That Just Lit Up a Chinese City
The cause of the explosion was reportedly related to a shipment of explosives to the city's port.
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Nepalese migrant workers queue to receive official documents in order to leave Nepal from the Labour department in Kathmandu on January 27, 2014. Nearly 200 Nepali migrant workers died in Qatar in 2013, many of them from heart failure, officials said, figures that highlight the grim plight of labourers in the Gulf nation. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images) Watching Your Country Collapse from Afar
Thousands of Nepali workers in Qatar struggle to find a way to go home -- and give back -- to a country in crisis.
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472112364_960 Rebuilding Nepal, from the Government Up
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that wreaked havoc in Kathmandu has opened up an opportunity for the reform the country so desperately needs.
