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NOAA Bracing for Patricia
The Category-5 storm is logging 200 mile-per-hour winds, and is expected to make landfall on Friday.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Evolving U.S. Line on the Kunduz Airstrike
Initial explanations said the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital was collateral damage or an accident, but a general now says the Americans made the decision to launch the attack.
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William Hoey/Marine Traffic It’s Extremely Rare for Large Ships Like El Faro to Disappear
The Coast Guard believes the missing cargo ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean with 33 people aboard.
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Wikimedia Fighting a Quake with Counterinsurgency
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NOAA / The Atlantic 'People Want to Debate the Causes ... I Feel Consequences.'
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Why the Director of FEMA Likes Rationing
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What Disaster Experts Really Think of Disaster Movies
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters We Are All First Responders
FEMA Director Craig Fugate on why the Katrina response failed, why it’s important to talk about “survivors” instead of “victims,” and why citizens can’t just wait for the government to save them in a huge disaster
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Tom Reichner / Bonita R. Cheshier / Dustie … The Mothers of All Disasters
Massive hurricanes striking Miami or Houston. Earthquakes leveling Los Angeles or Seattle. Deadly epidemics. Meet the “maximums of maximums” that keep emergency planners up at night.
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Noah Berger / Reuters Is Anywhere on Earth Safe From Climate Change?
Relocating to a landlocked city isn’t enough.
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Mike Segar / Reuters A Long Road Home
The systems in place to provide aid after natural disasters often fail those who need help the most.
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Jason Miczek / Reuters Why Didn't a Background Check Stop Dylann Roof?
FBI Director James Comey said an error in the system allowed the Charleston shooter to obtain a gun he should have been barred from buying.
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Alan Kristofer Motus / Reuters The Philippines Suffers Its 14th Disaster at Sea Since 2000
The capsizing of the MB Nirvana has left at least 36 people dead.
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Reuters The Burning and Re-Burning of Mt. Zion Church
The Greeleyville, South Carolina, building caught fire Tuesday night, 20 years after becoming a national symbol when it was torched by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1995.
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Akhtar Soomro / Reuters A Summer of Fatal Weather: Pakistan's Heat Wave
Deadly heat, flooding, extreme drought, and storms have marked what’s expected to be the hottest year on record.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters 'An Absolute Disastrous Mess'
The derailment of an Amtrak train killed at least seven people and injured dozens more in Philadelphia.
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Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters Devastation in Nepal
The disaster has claimed over 2,400 lives and destroyed much of the country's cultural heritage.
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Brian Snyder/Reuters Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Guilty of the Crimes, Punishment Uncertain
A jury found the Boston Marathon bomber guilty on all 30 counts for his role in the 2013 attack. That same jury now decides if he will spend life in prison or get the death penalty.
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Anonymous video/The New York Times Shot and Killed While Running Away
A North Charleston, South Carolina police officer is charged with murder after video shows him shooting an unarmed man in the back.
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AP The Kenyan School Attack in Context
Gunmen stormed an East African college, killing 147—part of an uptick in terrorists targeting schools.
