Emergency Planners Are Having a Moment

Also, in a disaster, there are no good decisions, there are only least-worse decisions. Every decision will come with a set of consequences. What the government really struggled to do was mitigate the consequences of decisions they felt that they had to take. My personal view is that what the UK’s going through at the … Read more

‘Bottoms’ Director Emma Seligman Lets Characters Be Self-Absorbed Disasters

The Big Picture Emma Seligman’s films feature messy, flawed, and relatable women characters that break traditional stereotypes. Seligman’s writing in Shiva Baby presents an imperfect protagonist without sensationalizing or vilifying her. Bottoms subverts expectations by allowing queer women characters to be selfish, flawed, and hilarious in the sex comedy genre. In June 2014, Tasha Robinson … Read more

New Year’s Day quake in Japan revives the trauma of 2011 triple disasters

SUZU, Japan — The powerful earthquake that shattered the peace of New Year’s Day in central Japan did not spur massive tsunamis like those that scoured the Pacific coast in 2011, killing nearly 20,000 people and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes. The tsunamis that did roll in along the Sea of … Read more

Israel Weighs Plan to Flood Gaza Tunnels With Seawater

WASHINGTON—Israel has assembled a system of large pumps it could use to flood Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that could destroy the tunnels and drive the fighters from their underground refuge but also threaten Gaza’s water supply, U.S. officials said. The Israel Defense Forces finished assembling large … Read more

Here’s How Bad Climate Change Will Get in the US—and Why There’s Still Hope

Hot off a summer of record heat, a savage wildfire that destroyed Lahaina, and hurricanes that rapidly intensified into monsters, the United States today released its Fifth National Climate Assessment. The report—done with input from over 750 experts from every US state—exhaustively lays out the already severe effects climate change is having on the country, … Read more

The best way to Assist and Donate to Wildfire Victims in Hawaii

Over 100 persons are confirmed lifeless after a wildfire devastated components of Maui, Hawaii. Households fled from their vehicles and into the ocean to flee the surging flames that engulfed the city of Lahaina with little warning. What ignited the wildfire stays unknown; a number of components may have contributed to the catastrophe. Hawaiians who … Read more

Cities Aren’t Presupposed to Burn Like This Anymore—Particularly Lahaina

“These fire-prone invasive species fill in any gaps wherever else—roadsides, in between communities, in between individuals’s properties, everywhere,” Elizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the Hawaii Wildfire Administration Group, informed WIRED final week. “At this level, 26 p.c of our state is roofed in these fire-prone grasses.”  Not solely has a lot of Maui been in … Read more

India prepare crash kills over 280, injures 900 in one in all nation’s worst rail disasters

BALASORE, India — Rescuers discovered no extra survivors within the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in jap India, killing greater than 280 folks and injuring a whole bunch in one of many nation’s deadliest rail crashes in a long time, officers mentioned Saturday. Chaotic scenes erupted on Friday night time … Read more