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Three men huddle around their outrigger while waiting for passengers as flood waters continue to rise due to rain and high tide Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in Navotas City, north of Manila, Philippines. 
Rebel alliance: Part I
A woman stands inside a damaged interior with blue painted walls underneath an arch and art hung loosely on the walls.
‘Our house is your house’: Locals open their homes after Beirut blast
A man in shorts and a baseball hat stands next to construction workers covered in soot.
Media
HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ revisits nuclear catastrophe with a nod to climate change
As Hurricane Florence Approaches, What About the People Forced to Stay?
Full Episode
A young girl looks back after getting her shoe stuck in the mud while carrying supplies
Health
The real death toll in Puerto Rico is probably 450 — much higher than the official count
Conflict & Justice
Takeouts: Gulf oil spill threatens Democrat’s climate bill, listener responses
A dog on a street destroyed after flooding and mudslides caused by heavy rains
Environment
Colombia mudslides kill at least 200 after rivers burst their banks
Environment
NYU professor studying the way humans use transportation
Port Salut
Justice
A once-dreamy Haitian beach town picks up the pieces after Hurricane Matthew
The interior of a destroyed house
Development
Hundreds are dead in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew
VIDEO: Airplane from U.S. makes belly landing in Poland after landing gear fails
A homeowner cleans up debris from her home in Louisiana.
Development
It takes an army of trucks from around the country to haul away the damage from Louisiana’s floods
Development
West Coast tests how it would respond to a big quake
Arts, Culture & Media
Indy Car driver Dan Wheldon dies in fiery Las Vegas crash (with video)
Environment
Containers with toxic cargo spill into ocean off New Zealand
Environment
Scientists on trial for not warning about earthquake
A seismologist poses for the media
Science
How your phone could help scientists detect and measure an earthquake
Moose in the Exclusion Zone
Environment
Wildlife in Chernobyl is thriving 30 years after the nuclear accident
Rebuilding efforts in Bhaktapur, Nepal
Development
One year after Nepal’s devastating earthquake, much of the country is still in ruins
24-year-old Prapti Tamang's two-story house was destroyed during the 2015 earthquake.
Development
Portraits from Nepal: Survivors struggle to rebuild a year after the deadly quake
People walk past debris of a collapsed building
Development
Ecuador carries on amidst chaos and grief after weekend’s earthquake
Man looks for a missing loved one in Fukushima
Environment
Five years after Fukushima, the clean-up has just begun
Flint residents receive bottled water and filters
Justice
A network of churches are among those trying to reach undocumented immigrants with water in Flint
Dr. Zoi Livaditou (R) greets Dr. Shimrit Eliyah of Israid in Skala Sykaminia, Lesbos, Greece. Dr. Andreas Iliadis looks on.
Conflict
On Lesbos, a courageous doctor struggles to save Syrian refugees and help locals
Near Al Mukalla, Yemen, where people were isolated by heavy flooding from Cyclone Chapala
Culture
A rare first-person account of living through the tropical cyclone that struck Yemen
Paris climate change summit logo
Environment
A veteran of the Katrina response says climate change will force us all to be first responders
All but five of the victims in the crash were Russian citizens
Conflict
Why the airplane crash in Egypt sent Russia into mourning
Rescue workers carry a girl injured in the tremors at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
Development
Afghanistan and Pakistan are hit by a major earthquake: ‘The earth just shook’
A man rides his bicycle past the Singapore Flyer observatory wheel shrouded by haze, in Singapore.
Environment
Toxic haze threatens millions in southeast Asia
Taio Kaneta with his signature "Cafe de Monk" truck that he uses for his pop-up cafes. As a Buddhist monk, Kaneta wanted to offer something special to those still reeling from the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.
Belief
At Cafe de Monk, tsunami survivors can get coffee, cake and someone to listen to their woes
The reconstructed wreckage of the MH17 airplane is seen after the presentation of the final report into the crash.
Conflict
How the Malaysia Airlines shootdown report is being spun in Russia
A ‘Buk’ anti-aircraft battery launches a ground-to-air missile during a Ukrainian army exercise before the war. The weapon is in service with the militaries of both Russia and Ukraine, although Russia says it no longer uses the model identified by Dutch i
Conflict
Malaysia Airlines flight 17: Why wasn’t the airspace closed?
A piece of the plane wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 near the Ukrainian village of Petropavlivka.
Justice
Dutch investigators will reveal what happened to MH17 — but not who shot it down
The coastal Japanese city of Ishinomaki, before the Tsunami... and today.
Development
In search of an owner… our reporter tracks down a Japanese diver nearly devastated by the 2011 tsunami
California wild fire
Science
CalFire Chief Paul Duncan lost his home this weekend, but he helped his family to safety — by phone
Tima Kurdi, sister of Syrian refugee Abdullah Kurdi whose sons Aylan and Galip and wife Rehan were among 12 people who drowned in Turkey trying to reach Greece, cries while speaking to the media outside her home in Coquitlam, British Columbia. A photograp
Conflict
What’s the US doing to help the Syrian refugees?
A house and vehicles damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as seen in Ishinomaki, northern Japan.
Environment
A decade after Katrina, one researcher looks for global lessons in its aftermath
A woman carrying a baby, both wearing masks, make their way down a street and away from the site of explosions, in Tianjin, China.
Environment
Chinese residents hurt by the chemical blasts in Tianjin stand up to the government
Texas City explosion
Conflict
Four port disasters that rival — or eclipse — the Tianjin blast
Earthquakes in Nepal are only the start of the country's problems
Health
Months after deadly quakes, Nepal’s problems are only multiplying
Rubble stones organized for building.
Environment
In Nepal, one problem is the earthquake didn’t knock down enough houses
firefighters walk along a road
Environment
Canada isn’t the only country fighting off wildfires this week
President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee
Sports
Japan looks to the future — and its past — for 2020 Olympics
Today’s Takeaways: Hope in Nepal, Tension in Baltimore, and Courage Among the Trans Community
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Today’s Takeaways: Hope in Nepal, Tension in Baltimore, and Courage Among the Trans Community
Full Episode
A relative of a missing passenger aboard the capsized ship Eastern Star cries on the banks of the Jianli section of Yangtze River in Hubei province, China, June 4, 2015.
Media
Latest item on Chinese government’s censorship list? The cruise ship disaster
Relatives of victims killed in the collapse of Rana Plaza mourn on the first year anniversary of the accident. More than 1,100 factory workers were killed when the garment factory complex the worked in collapsed. Today, the owner of the building was char
Justice
Bangladesh factory owners charged with murder of more than 1,100 garment workers
A girl holding a candle takes part in a candlelight vigil, a month after the April 25 earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 25, 2015.
Global Politics
‘It’s a race against time’ to help Nepal’s earthquake survivors, warns one aid worker
An injured woman walks toward a hospital soon after an earthquake struck Sankhu, Nepal, on May 12, 2015. The 7.3-magnitude quake killed more than two dozen people in Nepal and neighboring states.
Development
Dozens more die after another major quake hits Nepal
A woman and a child, returning from a temple, walk past damaged and collapsed houses following the April 25, 2015, earthquake in Nepal.
Technology
How maps are saving lives as Nepal recovers from its earthquake
Two girls in the Nepali village of Melchour.
Health
Why many women in Nepal have had to deal with the disaster on their own
An aerial view of houses damaged by Saturday's earthquake is seen in Nuwakot, Nepal, May 1, 2015.
Development
How drones are helping relief efforts in Nepal
Earthquake survivor Krishna Kumari Khadka is rescued from a collapsed building in Kathmandu by French, Israeli and Norwegian rescue teams six days after the April 25, 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
Development
Five things the international community shouldn’t do after a disaster
A villager carries a child amid debris in Gorkha, Nepal, following the earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015.
Development
Human interest stories obscure the real human needs in Nepal
Dr Andrew Trotter at work at the Tribhuvan University Hospital after the earthquake
Development
How one American doctor is helping Nepal’s earthquake victims
A Nepalese army personnel stands in front of a collapsed temple in Bhaktapur, Nepal a day after the April 25 earthquake rocked the country. The quake devastated the heavily crowded Kathmandu valley, killing thousands and triggering a deadly avalanche on M
Environment
Earthquakes create as well as destroy
A mother with her son by Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage site, one day after the earthquake destroyed several temples.
Development
Images from Nepal show a people that are hurting
Samrat Upadhyay teaches creative writing at Indiana University in Bloomington. He says it's a difficult time for his country.
Development
After the earthquake, this Nepali writer dreads an upcoming visit home
Nepali students at the University of Massachusetts Boston work on their fundraising plan for earthquake relief efforts
Development
Nepali students in Boston channel their grief into fundraising efforts for earthquake relief
A woman carries her belongings as she walks over a collapsed house in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on April 27, 2015.
Science
Nepal’s quake preparations not enough, despite 20 years of warnings