CSI: Pompeii
The ancient Romans of Pompeii were already parboiled when the lava arrived, according to a new investigation with scary implications for modern-day Naples.
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No Port After the Storm
Post-Katrina New Orleans, still rife with blighted housing, is a lesson for recovering from future disasters.
I See a Quake in Your Future. Sometime.
A lucid look at decades of failed attempts to reach seismology's Holy Grail: the precise prediction of when earthquakes will occur.
After the Aftermath
Long after the benefit concerts are finished, the victims of hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis suffer severe emotional aftershocks. Is there a better way to respond to disaster?
Fumbling FEMA Wants Back in the Game
A political scientist argues that while FEMA has pulled up its socks since Hurricane Katrina, it's still not ready for primetime.
How Could They Have Stayed Behind?
A group of psychologists argue that during Hurricane Katrina, those who stayed in New Orleans had a very different sense of their options than those who oversaw the evacuations or those watching from afar.
What Katrina Taught Us About Disaster Mental Health
On the whole, the mental health establishment outshone most other emergency responders after Hurricane Katrina. In a Miller-McCune interview, the director of the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research explains some of the lessons drawn from that experience.
One Disaster, Too Many Explanations
In the aftermath of modern U.S. disasters, science is tasked with coming up with unbiased data and irrefutable analysis. If only life were that simple, especially when it all goes to court.
FEMA’s Nightmare: A Big Midwest Shaker
The “Big One” assumed for California or other Pacific Rim states and provinces will almost certainly arrive some…
Mass Evacuation Worked in Rehearsal, But …
New Orleans' plans for getting carless residents out of danger overcame initial obstacles only to founder later.