“If There Was Ever a Wake-up Call, This Is It” Much of the East Coast is shut down today as residents prepare for Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm that could impact up to 50 million people from the Carolinas to Boston. The storm has already killed 66 people in the Caribbean, where it battered Haiti and [...]

Sandy, the hurricane that appears set to pummel the East Coast, promises a historic potential for damage and a terrifying look at what may be in store for us—ever more frequent assaults of not-so-natural origin. Watching Sandy on her careening path toward the Eastern Seaboard scares me more than it would have 15 months ago. [...]

Uno de los comentarios más frecuentes tras el terremoto de 7.6 grados de magnitud que sacudió la Península de Nicoya la semana anterior, tuvo que ver con los daños “menores” que dejó dicho sismo, en comparación con otros similares. Cerca de 200 viviendas y 56 centros educativos con daños y algunas “grietas menores”, fueron el “favorable” [...]

Cerca de 500.000 personas tienen construidas sus viviendas en zonas que el proyecto de Planificación Regional y Urbana de la Gran Área Metropolitana (PRUGAM) identificó  como de “alto riesgo”, en mapas que elaboró en el 2009. La cifra preocupa si se considera que se está iniciando la temporada de lluvias y es [...]

Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder: Is this somehow related to the tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., or the enormous outbreak a couple of weeks before that (which, together, comprised [...]

Floods, earthquakes, landslides: 2011 is a year of disasters. Bill McKibben asks: are we to blame? Plus, survivors tell their tales At least since Noah, and likely long before, we’ve stared in horror at catastrophe and tried to suss out deeper meaning – it was but weeks ago that the Tokyo governor, Shintaro Ishihara, [...]

In an exclusive interview with RT, Sergey Shoigu, Russia’s Emergencies Minister, discussed the work of emergency services and international rescue amid the growing threat of a nuclear reactor meltdown in Japan following the quake and tsunami.

Japan may be losing control at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after a rise in radiation levels meant attempts to stabilise the situation had to be halted. The government’s top spokesman said one of the reactor’s key containment vessels is feared to have broken and radioactive material leaked out.

Una segunda explosión sacudió este lunes la estación nuclear de Fukushima Daiichi, en el este de Japón, creando una gran columna de humo y despertando nuevos temores de un escape de radiactividad. La compañía operadora de la planta, la Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), señaló en conferencia de prensa que se habría tratado de una explosión [...]

Un cataclismo ambiental, social y humano se ha abatido en la segunda semana de enero sobre las tres ciudades serranas del Estado de Río de Janeiro, Petrópolis, Teresópolis y Nueva Friburgo, con cientos de muertos, destrucción de regiones enteras y un inconmensurable sufrimiento de quienes perdieron familiares, casas y todos sus [...]