List of Natural Disasters articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Can a Poor City Really Do to Prepare for an Earthquake?
Earthquakes present a unique problem for cities with a lack of resources.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nepal’s Next Disaster
Kathmandu has become a city of makeshift shelters and crowded campsites — and it's setting the stage for a sanitation catastrophe that could kill thousands more.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S., China, India Race to Send Aid to Earthquake-Battered Nepal
As the death toll tops 3,700, countries around the world ramp up their ‘disaster diplomacy’ to save lives and bolster relations.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis, by the Numbers
Thousands of migrants have died making the dangerous crossing.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 10 Wars to Watch in 2015
From Afghanistan to Yemen, the conflicts and crises the world faces in the coming year.
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bv Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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632573_quiltycovercrop.jpg Finding Refuge on a Mine Field
Civilians fleeing attacks in Pakistan have fled over the border to Afghanistan. But a new danger is under their feet.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Government, Sinking
Why South Koreans can't get over the Sewol ferry disaster.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ebola Was Here
Ebola cases are dropping so rapidly that Liberians are talking about the disease in the past tense. They shouldn’t be.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Small Step Backward for Mankind
Why America needs to embrace a culture of risk in order to build the next-generation space program.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Shut Down a Country and Kill a Disease
China’s response to SARS a decade ago was effective but brutal. Is there a better way to stop the spread of Ebola?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Yahtzee Meets the Hot Zone
The nightmarish Ebola board game that's starting to look all too real.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Keep Ebola Out of Your Neighborhood
There’s a way to prevent the virus from spreading, but the answer isn’t travel bans.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Toxic Politics of Ebola
In Guinea, the epidemic isn’t just killing people. It’s threatening to tear the country apart.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stay of Expulsion
The government may not be kicking international aid workers out of South Sudan after all, but rising tensions between the two are getting worse -- and hurting the people who desperately need their help.