Natural disasters aren’t known for their convenience. They don’t cater to our schedules; instead they often strike with little to no warning. They can defy predictions and deviate from historic patterns. Disasters — like the damage they cause — are pure...
Over the past 20 years, 7,000 natural disasters have killed 1.35 million worldwide. Around 90% of those deaths occurred in lesser developed countries which lack the resources to protect vulnerable populations from flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters....
I am writing this as Hurricane Florence approaches the southeast coast of the United States. News reports of affected residents’ fears, worries, and anxieties, brought to mind the concerns that I and many of my colleagues faced following 9/11, regarding the mental...
In the aftermath of virtually any major disaster, the internet overflows with haunting images of what were, only days before, whole communities. Homes are gone; in their place, shattered debris sits strewn across the streets. Newsreels flash with the hunched profiles...
To the generations raised in a digital era, exchanging personal information online might feel as natural as breathing. But no matter how consciously one acknowledges the intrusion of cyberspace into our lives, doing so involves accepting another fact: the internet is...
