FEMA: Quarter of Florida Keys Homes May Be Ruined

By Freida Frisaro and Martha Mendoza / AP Sep 12, 2017 The Keys appear to be the hardest-hit part of the state. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Irma

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At Least 32 Dead After Powerful Earthquake Rocks Southern Mexico

By Christopher Sherman and E. Eduardo Castillo / AP Sep 8, 2017 The magnitude 8.1 temblor hit late Thursday off Chiapas state near the Guatemalan border. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Caribbean Islands Brace for Category 5 Hurricane Irma

By Julia Conley / Common Dreams Sep 5, 2017 While news outlets focus on the threat to the southern U.S., environmentalist Bill McKibben underlines the danger in the Caribbean. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Racial Optics for Harvey Different From Katrina’s

By Errin Haines Whack / AP Sep 5, 2017 Because there was no mandatory evacuation, people of all races and classes remained in Harvey's path, not just folks who couldn’t afford to leave. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Photo Op

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Inside Chernobyl: A Legacy of Ruin

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 26, 2016 Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer was the first American journalist to enter the surviving power plant in the former Soviet Union On the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster, he recounts his experience in a Los Angeles Times column first published on April 9, 1987 Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer was the first American journalist to enter the surviving power plant in the former Soviet Union. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Flooding

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New York Values: What Tiny Ted Cruz Will Never Get About the Big Town

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jan 16, 2016 Demagogues denigrating New York come and go with boring predictability -- and the nation's greatest city will continue to thrive long after the Texas senator is merely an unpleasant memory. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Filipino Climate Chief: ‘Stop This Madness’

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Nov 13, 2013 Yeb Saño choked up while speaking at the international climate conference in Warsaw in the wake of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), which is estimated to have killed more than 10,000 people: "I speak for the countless people who will no longer be able to speak for themselves after perishing from the storm." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tsunami Warning Canceled After Japanese Quake

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 25, 2013 A small tsunami triggered by the quake measuring 1 foot hit Japan's eastern coast, but no damage was reported, the BBC said. A tsunami warning issued earlier was lifted. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Oklahoma Needs Help, Not Ideology

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig May 23, 2013 While listening to an NPR report out of Moore, Okla., this week, I was genuinely shocked. Not by the scale of the devastation or the tenacity of people who have grown stoically accustomed to the damage tornadoes can do, but by a political sentiment that, in almost any other era, would not have been surprising at all. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )