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.
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.
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Surprise consequences to the earthquake in Japan have revealed significant weaknesses in both the worlds of politics and business and from an investment point of view, there are lessons we can learn.
Who are we fighting? Is this a war or not? Do we devote more resources? Less? These are the questions that we've asked in recent weeks about our effor...
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Pro bono service is better deployed not for disaster relief but instead for disaster prevention or mitigation. These aren't as immediately gratifying but can still make a tremendous impact.
We are fragile corporal fragments. We bleed, we breathe. When we are pulled into the theater of illness we suddenly, simultaneously, feel our ephemeral immortal pulse. One we measure, the other we sense.
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If you haven't seen the state of the world today, spoiler alert: not good. Instead of addressing these daunting challenges, can we just take a month off and forget about them?