List of Natural Disasters articles
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gamearchive.as.ua.edu Yahtzee Meets the Hot Zone
The nightmarish Ebola board game that's starting to look all too real.
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Mark Wilson/Getty Images How to Keep Ebola Out of Your Neighborhood
There’s a way to prevent the virus from spreading, but the answer isn’t travel bans.
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Photo: Peter Tinti The Toxic Politics of Ebola
In Guinea, the epidemic isn’t just killing people. It’s threatening to tear the country apart.
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SAMIR BOL/AFP/Getty Images) Stay of Expulsion
The government may not be kicking international aid workers out of South Sudan after all, but rising tensions between the two are getting worse -- and hurting the people who desperately need their help.
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John Moore/Getty Images The Peace Bridge to Nowhere
Changing how peacebuilding organizations measure success could save aid projects that are stuck trying to meet rigid, dated, and increasingly arbitrary goals in conflict zones.
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Photo by ANDREY KRONBERG/AFP/Getty Images Escape From Gorlivka
Volunteers are risking life and limb to help evacuate those left behind in the wreckage of eastern Ukraine.
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DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images We Could Have Stopped This
Public health officials knew Ebola was coming. They know how to defeat it. But they’re blowing it anyway.
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MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images Step Away, Do Nothing, Pat Self on Back
It looks like the Obama administration has found its grand strategy after all.
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John Moore/Getty Images How Not to End a Plague
From thuggish quarantines to botched burials, is the Liberian government’s handling of the Ebola crisis making it worse?
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Photo by SAMIR BOL/AFP/Getty Images How to Prevent Total Disaster in South Sudan
After half a year of fighting, the world's newest country is barreling toward calamity. But its leaders can pull it back from the brink -- if they choose to do so.
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CHARLES LOMODONG/AFP/Getty Images South Sudan’s Coming Famine
Renewed fighting in the war-torn country has derailed humanitarian relief efforts, and now tens of thousands are facing starvation.
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Photo by VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images Why Haiti Needs a National Dialogue
Four years after a devastating earthquake, Haiti remains a mess. It's time to bring Haitians from all walks of life into a national conversation about the country's future.
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Rob Stothard/Getty Images The Forgotten Victims of the War in Ukraine
We're right to mourn the dead of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. But that doesn't mean we should forget the others whose lives are being forever altered by the war.