All posts in Natural Disasters

China 2008 Earthquake
June 17, 2008, 1 Comment

June 17 More floods threaten south China Dykes and embankments are being reinforced in southern China amid some of the w ...

West Wing of Wednesday Night #3
June 11, 2008, 1 Comment

More from our West Wing The third installment of the Wednesday Night Salon – West Wing – will be held in Van ...

Wednesday Night #1367
May 14, 2008, 4 Comments

NAFTA/Mexico The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has proven beneficial to both United States and Canada, but ...

Avaaz on Burma
May 9, 2008, Comments Off on Avaaz on Burma

—–Original Message—– From: Ricken Patel – Avaaz.org [mailto:avaaz@avaaz.org] Sent: Friday, ...

La Niña and Climate Chaos
March 13, 2008, Comments Off on La Niña and Climate Chaos

Flooding in eastern Bolivia.Credit:Franz Chávez/IPS (IPS) SANTIAGO, Mar 13 (Tierramérica) – It is still difficul ...

Climate Change Threatens Human Rights Of Millions – UN
February 19, 2008, Comments Off on Climate Change Threatens Human Rights Of Millions – UN

February 20, 2008 (Planet Ark) GENEVA – Climate change threatens the human rights of millions of people who are at ...

Wednesday Night #1353
February 6, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1353

If there’s anything going on in the world besides Super Tuesday, it’s hard to discern it in the media, wheth ...

Three Rs for surviving environmental change
January 18, 2008, Comments Off on Three Rs for surviving environmental change

January 18, 2008 Cleo Paskal No country is ready for natural disasters. In fact, some of the world’s richest nations a ...

New Orleans – An autopsy
September 1, 2007, Comments Off on New Orleans – An autopsy

September 2007 Ben C. Toledano, Commentary Magazine Reports of the death of New Orleans as a major American city have no ...

Katrina Update: A Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Still at Risk
August 17, 2007, 1 Comment

   By JOHN SCHWARTZ NEW ORLEANS — Six inches. (New York Times) After two years and more than a billion dollars s ...