Disasters
Dispatch
East Palestine, After the Crash
More than a year after a train derailment and chemical fire in Ohio that made international news, residents contend with lingering sickness, uncertainty, and, for some, a desire to just move on.
2023 in Review
The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2023
The articles that sustained the longest hold on readers during a year when many avoided the news.
Dispatch
The Invisible Fire on Maui
For those on the Hawaiian island whose jobs depend on tourism, a period of mourning and recovery has also brought fear for their livelihoods.
News Desk
Living Through Maui’s Unimaginable Wildfires
Hawaiians who survived Lahaina’s deadly fires described an inferno that blackened the sky and laid waste to entire neighborhoods.
Dispatch
In Itaewon, Another Betrayal of Young Koreans
Why have politicians and bureaucrats, of both major parties, failed so radically at the basic provision of public safety?
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, September 21st
“Come on out, everyone! The times are finally back to being precedented!”
A Reporter at Large
Los migrantes que van tras los pasos de los desastres climáticos
Un grupo cada vez mayor de operarios persigue huracanes e incendios forestales del mismo modo que los trabajadores agrícolas siguen tras las cosechas, tercerizados por grandes empresas de recuperación de desastres y enfrentándose a la explotación, las lesiones y la muerte.
A Reporter at Large
The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters
A growing group of laborers is trailing hurricanes and wildfires the way farmworkers follow crops, contracting for big disaster-recovery firms, and facing exploitation, injury, and death.
Dispatch
Sifting Silently Through Surfside’s Rubble
Sinead Imbaro and her Belgian Malinois’s quest for hints of life.
As Told To
A Miami Family’s Agonizing Wait After the Surfside Building Collapse
Claudio Bonnefoy Bachelet and Maricoy Obias-Bonnefoy have been missing since the disaster in Florida.
Page-Turner
“Leave the World Behind,” a Novel About the Disaster That Won’t End
Rumaan Alam’s enthralling new book follows its privileged characters on a getaway to the Hamptons as the world crumbles around them.
Science
The Elusive Peril of Space Junk
Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?
Culture Desk
A Memory of Recklessness in the Face of Disaster
There’s nothing particularly unusual about young people of any era being indifferent to seeming abstractions like illness, aging, and death.
Books
Joyelle McSweeney’s Poetry of Catastrophe
Her latest work, a nightmarish portrait of the toxic hazards that surround us, arrives uncannily in the midst of a pandemic.
Dispatch
A Haphazard Recovery in the Bahamas
In the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, the strongest one in the islands’ recorded history, Floridians with boats and planes began an evacuation that rivalled Dunkirk in its approach.
News Desk
The Sinking of the M.V. Sewol and the Confusion of Disasters
When the South Korean passenger ferry sank, five years ago this month, it raised questions about authority and trust.
Class Notes
A High-School Reunion Derailed by Hurricane Florence
At home, church, and work, a community rides out the storm and its tragedies.
Comment
Trump’s Trips to Puerto Rico and Las Vegas
The first revealed the cost of a lack of political representation; the second showed the consequences of a lack of political courage.
Shouts & Murmurs
To the Class of 2050
