The lost river: The Colorado River serves over thirty-five million Americans before reaching Mexico – but it is dammed at the border, leaving locals on the other side with a dry delta ~enviro Article 1705 words 6 votes
The 160-mile-long Garlock fault in California has begun moving for the first time on record; has the potential of producing a magnitude eight earthquake ~science Article 1629 words 12 votes
A worst-possible wildfire scenario for Southern California ~enviro climate change Article 2444 words, published Sep 10 2019 8 votes
PG&E releases list of California cities, counties on power shut-off watch ~enviro energy Article 1233 words 10 votes
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crashes at Hartford airport; at least seven reported dead ~news usa.ct.hartford Article 869 words 17 votes
Red to green: The stark evolution of Christchurch's abandoned acres ~enviro Article 4691 words 12 votes
A new study posits that tsunamis triggered by the Great Alaska Earthquake in 1964 washed a deadly fungus onto the shore ~science biology.micro Article 909 words 6 votes
Sweden marks 25th anniversary of Estonia ferry disaster – some survivors and relatives want an independent international inquiry into the 1994 accident ~humanities.history Article 237 words, published Jul 19 2019 4 votes
The 1963 sinking of the Thresher killed 129 men and became history’s deadliest submarine disaster ~humanities.history Article 1516 words 5 votes
A decade later, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has left an abyssal wasteland ~enviro pollution.water Article 1640 words 11 votes
European regulators have ordered immediate checks on recently delivered versions of some Airbus helicopters after a crash in Arctic Norway last month ~transport Article 281 words 7 votes
As the Veslemannen mountain collapses in Norway, local residents celebrate ~enviro Article 578 words 6 votes
Bahamas death toll from Hurricane Dorian reaches thirty, with thousands still missing; 70,000 people in need of food, water or shelter; and estimated $7 billion in damage ~enviro Article 800 words 7 votes
Hurricane Dorian: Storm inches north west, leaving devastation in Bahamas ~enviro Article 1303 words 5 votes
Preparing for Hurricane Dorian: Storm trackers and other survival tools ~enviro Article 1061 words 5 votes
Airbus AS-350B helicopter carrying six people has crashed outside Alta in northern Norway – four people have died ~transport Article 463 words 8 votes
After Katrina, a priceless musical archive was thought lost. It showed up in Torrance ~music Article 2823 words 6 votes
Indonesia will build its new capital city in Borneo as Jakarta sinks into the Java Sea ~design urban planning Article 335 words 11 votes
Hurricane forecasts may be running headlong into the butterfly effect ~science Article 491 words 8 votes
Little penguins in need of more rehabilitation jumpers in case of oil spill ~enviro Article 689 words 3 votes
Plane reportedly carrying singer Pink's crew crashes after landing at Denmark airport ~music Article 222 words 5 votes
This US heartland has been flooded for five months. Does anyone care? ~enviro Article 473 words 10 votes
Heavy rain triggers series of landslides in Norway – at least one person is presumed dead and many others unaccounted for ~enviro Article 303 words 6 votes
For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future ~enviro Article 10 848 words 4 votes
'People are dying': How the climate crisis has sparked an exodus to the US ~enviro climate change Article 1321 words 17 votes
Europe’s cities weren’t built for this kind of heat ~design urban planning architecture Article 21 votes
Watch the Ridgecrest earthquake shatter the desert floor in stunning before-and-after images ~science Article 12 votes
Fire at notorious Brooklyn federal jail as NYC enters heat wave ~news usa.ny.nyc Article 487 words 4 votes
Death and broken livelihoods: Farmers and wildfires in British Columbia ~enviro Article 1165 words 4 votes
Why doing harm is profitable: You might think it’s always “bad for business” to cause disaster. You’d be very wrong! ~finance business economics Article 1682 words 9 votes
Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved. ~design architecture Article 3383 words 14 votes
The day the fire came: A tale of love and loss on the Panhandle plains ~life relationships Article 8076 words, published Jul 21 2017 4 votes
Before the shaking starts: Living in the shadow of Utah’s next big earthquake ~life Article 7194 words 6 votes
Parts of New Orleans are flooded. Worse is on the way: A brewing storm surge could elevate the Mississippi River to twenty feet above sea level—as high as the levees that protect the city. ~enviro Article 458 words 10 votes
For forty years, crashing trains was one of America’s favorite pastimes ~transport Article 1370 words, published Jul 1 2019 6 votes
Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic ~humanities.history Article 422 words 7 votes
Alaska: Temperatures rival Miami amid 'unprecedented' heatwave ~enviro climate change Article 209 words, published Jul 5 2019 6 votes
Largest earthquake in decades hits Southern California, measuring 6.4 magnitude ~enviro Article 16 votes