When I was younger I remember feeling the Loma Prieta quake while at an after-school program, and then upon returning home, heading next door to see my neighbor’s swimming pool still thrashing about. It was a peculiar sight.
(Photo: Creative Corps / Flickr)
That sense of peculiarity has returned to me these last couple months. First [...]
This week, we wanted to focus the gRound-up on the earthquake disaster in Haiti, highlighting some articles that discuss the underlying environmental issues there.
Deforestation in Haiti
This video report by the New York Times shows how the cycle of deforestation and poverty is perpetuated Haiti.
How to rebuild Haiti
Jeffery Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia [...]
The following photos were taken during a March 2009 field assignment in Haiti. The purpose of that trip was to conduct a post-disaster environmental needs assessment following the 2008 hurricane season. This gallery offers some images of what Port-au-Prince looked like at that time, and provides a visual context for the sort of building construction [...]
Recent Comments