Destroying forests, polluting rivers, cutting down trees. We have disturbed the balance of nature, disturbed the balance of the earth.
Destroying forests, polluting rivers, cutting down trees. We have disturbed the balance of nature, disturbed the balance of the earth.
I recently read an article about a 1951 Thomas Hart Benton painting that sold for nearly $1.9 million at a Southeby's auction. The painting, Flood Dis...
God forbid, but should another violent twister ravage another American city the way Joplin, Missouri was hit last Sunday, we will remember this as the...
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world's largest hydropower project. Now the Chinese government has officially acknowledged the project's serious social, environmental and geological problems.
The damage from disasters lasts long after their stories fade from headlines. This response will require a long-term commitment -- a commitment that's already been made by members of Feeding America.
It seems almost obligatory that I should open with a few words on Ingrid Chavez's collaborations with ultra-famous rockers Prince and Lenny Kravitz. But if you are only familiar with those facets of Ingrid's career, you are missing out.
No one would build a reactor in a high-risk earthquake zone on a coast now. Not after Fukushima. Would they? Two of the world's biggest banks, HSBC and BNP Paribas, are doing just that. If completed according to plan, it will be the world's biggest nuclear power facility.
Last week, CNN proved once again that it is the television news source that occasional news viewers seek out when major stories break. It ranked ninth...
Mexico City has developed a series of initiatives to better enable both Mexico City's government and our 20 million citizens to respond quickly to a deadly earthquake.
Emma Larkin, a journalist from Thailand, went to Burma in the aftermath of Nargis to speak to the victims. Larkin painted a picture of towns full of rescue workers, who were trapped with no place to go.
It begins like a joke that only a liberal arts professor would tell -- what do you get when you dress thirty poets in safety goggles and hardhats, and put them on a boat together?
The Chaitén volcano came to life on May 2, 2008 for the first time in 9,000 years in a major eruption, and since that time, has never stopped.
The overwhelming violence of the storms -- and their lack of distinction between believer and non-believer -- has served as a catalyst that encourages people of different faiths to work together.
Footage of unprecedented disasters destroying communities here and around the globe has become unsettlingly commonplace. Tragically, what has also become commonplace are disaster responses that have been disasters in and of themselves.
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More and more people seem convinced that something dramatic will happen at the end of 2012. Something dramatic will indeed happen -- and it could be something dramatically good.
If boreal forests expand northward, climate models show that summers will warm because the forests will absorb more heat than the surrounding tundra.
The fast acting Captain who turned the Missouri and saved Joe's life could not have done so if there hadn't been an officer on board who could recognize at an instant that the planes coming fast and low belonged to the enemy.
I wanted to share a story today about one of those very heroes in hopes that it will ignite more supporters to champion the work still needed to be done in Japan and for future natural disasters.
It's not enough to think of Earth as an impotent casualty of humanity's predations. It is also a complex system with many potent defenses -- defenses it is already wielding to devastating effect when it comes to human societies.