Features real-life stories of children's courage and heroism surviving natural disasters. Case studies from personal accounts describe stories in context and explain how people overcame their problems or circumstances.
Describes how the soldiers of the world's Special Forces survive natural disasters and explains the right course of action to take during tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
Describes several kinds of environmental disasters, such as oil spills, chemical explosions, and nuclear power accidents, and their impact on people, animals, land, air, water, and the atmosphere, and includes an experiment.
The Y2K bug, which prompted fears of a cataclysmic breakdown of societal order as 1999 turned into 2000, fizzled. Nevertheless, the decade experienced its share of catastrophic events including a massive and deadly tsunami, a bridge collapse, killer tornadoes, and devastating terrorist acts.
Explores the events of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, issues surrounding US aid and military efforts; inconsistencies of the death tolls; and controversies surrounding the adoptions of Haitian orphans, and personal narratives from people who experienced the earthquake.
Collects seventeen articles from "Scientific American" magazine on earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other geological events, storms, and asteroid impacts, discussing their formation; detection and tracking; and prediction and preparation.
A collection of seventeen controversial essays that debate issues relating to natural disasters including international response to disasters, who should provide aid, and whether or not the government discriminates against the poor in natural disasters.
A collection of articles written by the science staff of "The New York Times," in which they discuss volcanoes, earthquakes, storms and hurricanes, climatic catastrophe, the threat of asteroid collisions with earth, and other natural disasters.
