Houston Catastrophe: Prediction Becomes Fact
Just a month before Hurricane Harvey – now a tropical storm — devastated the Houston/Galveston coastal region, moving on to Louisiana– the Union of Concerned Scientists issued When Rising Seas Hit […]
Category Archives: Disasters
Climate Change: An Inconvenient Sequel
A sequel to An Inconvenient Truth – the 2006 documentary produced by former VP Al Gore and seen by a worldwide audience – premieres July 28 worldwide as An Inconvenient […]
Florence Reborn: 50th Anniversary after the Flood
It’s been 50 years since the Arno River’s banks overflowed, bringing a raging torrent of water, mud, abandoned vehicles, and dead animals rushing through the narrow streets of Florence’s […]
Chernobyl at 30
Today is Chernobyl ‘s 30th anniversary– and the impacts of the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster (yes, they say, worse than Fukushima in 2011) are still being felt in […]
