Nov 17 Watch How Do You Protect Against a Tsunami? Researchers in Japan are working to find ways to limit the most-catastrophic damage from tsunamis. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports. Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch Bangkok Residents Brace for More Floods Bangkok Becomes 'Sandbag City' as Residents Brace for Floods… Continue watching
Oct 25 In Flooded Bangkok, a ‘Sandbag Fortress’ By Larisa Epatko Many of Bangkok's nearly 10 million residents are hunkering down behind sandbags or seeking other temporary shelter as their homes get swallowed up by rising flood waters from the north. Continue reading
Oct 25 Rising Waters Put Thailand at Risk By Larisa Epatko Flood waters have destroyed thousands of homes in Bangkok and surrounding communities in Thailand, and forced more than 100,000 people into temporary shelters. Continue reading
Oct 24 Watch In Turkey ‘There Are Lives to Be Saved and No Time to Waste’ After Earthquake In Turkey's, 'There Are Lives to Be Saved and No Time to Waste' After Earthquake… Continue watching
Oct 24 Many Still Trapped After 7.2-Magnitude Quake in Turkey By News Desk A 16-year-old earthquake survivor is carried by rescue workers from a collapsed building in the Ercis province of Van, in eastern Turkey, on Monday. Photo by Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey Sunday killing at least 270… Continue reading
Oct 20 Watch Earthquake Prediction: Could We Ever Forecast the Next Big One? Hundreds of cities on the U.S. West Coast took part in the 2011 Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill on Thursday, just hours before a small tremor hit the San Francisco Bay Area. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports from Japan on… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch Mother Nature, Manmade Changes Fuel Flooding Across Asia Mother Nature, Changing Infrastructure Fuel Worst Floods in Half-Century… Continue watching
Oct 14 Raw Video: In Thailand, Rising Waters and Risky Rescues By Larisa Epatko Heavy monsoon rains have swamped a third of Thailand since summer, causing at least $3 billion in damages, according to the Thai government. In this raw video footage from APTN, residents sandbag their homes and escape flooded areas by clinging… Continue reading
Sep 28 Galveston: The Mother of All U.S. Natural Disasters A split view of Galveston's Broadway Street - in September 1900 and today. Photo courtesy of Galveston Historical Foundation. September is an unlucky time of year for Galveston, Texas. It was in September that this barrier island on the… Continue reading