“As FEMA struggles to keep up with climate disasters, extremist groups see an opportunity.”
natural disaster
Posted inEditor's Pick
Identity Crisis
“In a checklist of responses to a large-scale disaster, victim identification comes low down the pecking order.”
Posted inFeature
Heroes of the Hurricane
When a storm surge swept dozens of wild horses and cattle from the coast of North Carolina, no one expected there to be survivors. Then hoofprints appeared in the sand.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Seventy-Two Hours Under the Heat Dome
“A chronicle of a slow-motion climate disaster that became one of Oregon’s deadliest calamities.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Hawkeye Elegy: A Collision of Pandemic, Disaster, and Polarization in the Heartland
“Last summer a monster storm tore across Iowa, leaving billions of dollars damage in its wake. It was a brutal blow to an economy already reeling from a deadly pandemic and a state divided by politics like never before.”
Posted inNonfiction
The Geography of Risk
Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth, so why do taxpayers have to pay for the hurricane damage to rich coastal communities?
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Haruki Murakami Strolls Through His Childhood Home After the Hanshin Earthquake
When Haruki Murakami walked the long distance between his childhood home outside Kobe and the city center, he found a city changed by the great Kobe earthquake, and the constant spector of violence.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Current Events, Uncategorized
Suburbanizing Survivalism
Inside the booming business of survival food.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
28 Voices From the Storm
The before, during, and after of how Hurricane Harvey battered Texas for five days.
Posted inUncategorized
‘The fire burned sideways in the cold, red dark’
How the worst fire in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 100 years destroyed 2000 properties, displaced 14,000 people, and killed 14 in under 24 hours.