I can't remember how I got through the costliest natural disaster in US history as a child after my house was flattened in 1992, and that's a testament to the adults. Late August can be a tough...
natural disasters
I am a weather nerd (among many other forms of nerd). Every day, I check the National Weather Service's 5 and 7 day rainfall forecasts. I think I started doing.
For the first time, I was asked to write a book blurb. That book is now ready for you to buy and you should do so. It's Stan Cox and.
Five years today since the Fukushima earthquake and subsequent nuclear power plant disaster. Some links for this anniversary. The power plant is still leaking radioactive substances into the ocean, although obviously at far lower rates than immediately after the quake. The mixed international impact of...
Disasters, however "natural," are a wonderful (well, horrible really) entry point into exposing to the public to deep fissures on inequality in a society. That's true whether they are earthquakes,.
This Human Rights Watch report on climate change in northwestern Kenya is well worth your time. It is quite excellent because it shows how climate change combines with politics, tradition,.
My good friend Jacob Remes has an interesting piece up at the Atlantic. You may remember him from his entry in the This Day in Labor History series on Davis Day in Canada. He is a historian of disasters and working-class solidarity. We read chapters...
One point that many on the social justice side of the climate change issue repeat over and over is that the impacts of climate change are going to be felt.
Aftermath of the Rochester, Minnesota tornado, August 21, 1883. There's a whole page at the NOAA site of photos documenting the aftermath of this F5 tornado. Also, this series has.
Well, the US avoided any hurricanes this year so maybe things are going OK in the weather world, right? Oh dear. Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines at 4am local time today with winds near 195 mph, making it the strongest tropical cyclone to make...
There's no reason to think that the United States is more drought-immune than ancient societies that were destroyed by it: More than 3,200 years ago, life was abuzz in and.
The Oklahoma legislature is awesome: An Oklahoma state representative said he wants voters to decide whether the state should issue bonds to help fund storm shelters in public schools, a.