+Weather | April 28, 2011

The Hows and Whys of a Possibly Record-Breaking Tornado Month

By Bryan Walsh

The South is reeling from what could be one of the deadliest tornado systems in U.S. history. Yesterday storms and tornadoes ripped through Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia, killing as many as 200 people, and potentially far more. At least 139 separate tornadoes were reported yesterday. That number is almost certain to rise, and [...]

+Disasters | January 12, 2011

Disasters: One Year After the Haiti Quake, The Struggle to Rebuild Stronger

By Bryan Walsh

One of the surprising facts about the devastating earthquake in Haiti, which struck the island country a year ago today, is that by seismic standards it wasn’t all that big. The temblor was 7.0 on the Richter scale—strong, but hardly record-breaking. The earthquake that hit Chile a month and a half later was an 8.8—some [...]