Disaster

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August 6, 2025
U.S. Coast Guard finds OceanGate CEO ignored safety warnings and falsified records before fatal Titan implosion.
June 26, 2021
A search and rescue effort in Miami is being hampered by both weather and fires that are breaking out in…
October 29, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Still shaken by the memories of Superstorm Sandy's frightening tidal surge, survivors came together Tuesday to…
August 27, 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitians began to dig themselves out of the mud on Sunday, one day after Tropical Storm…
June 7, 2012
LAGOS - Last Sunday afternoon, an American McDonnell-Douglas MD-83 plane fell out of the sky above Iju-Ishaga, a low-income neighborhood…
April 15, 2012
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney walked onstage without any assistance and spoke for an hour and…
January 12, 2012
OPINION - Marleine Bastien recalls the day two years ago when the devastating earthquake in Haiti changed her community's lives…
January 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Since their unprecedented environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast nearly two years ago, BP Oil has been…
March 7, 2011
NEW ORLEANS - When the tornado hit this Louisiana town, Jalisa Granger was instinctively sheltering her child from the sudden,…
January 12, 2011
OPINION - Rebuilding would not be an easy task by any yardstick, but the bold leadership that it requires has…
January 12, 2011
theGRIO VIDEO - Junior Dolce's day begins before dawn as the tent city in Petionville -- one of the largest…
August 26, 2010
SLIDESHOW - The oldest planned African-American middle class community in New Orleans, sustained some of the deepest flooding during the…
May 2, 2010
VENICE, La. (AP) - No remedy in sight, President Obama on Sunday warned of a "massive and potentially unprecedented environmental…
March 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama said the challenge now is "to prevent a second disaster" with the start of the rainy…
February 19, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) - Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive says the Haitian government will appropriate land to build temporary camps for earthquake…
February 12, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE(AP) - In many of the outdoor camps, trucks with loudspeakers blast evangelical music while missionaries talk to families under…
January 26, 2010
DISPATCH - It will take years before things really return to normal, whatever that means after a crisis like this...
January 25, 2010
OPINION - It's important for people to keep an eye on what's happening in Haiti because Haiti has been neglected…
January 24, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) - Experts say chances are slim that more survivors will be found in that debris, although rescuers pulled…
January 23, 2010
DISPATCH - For years to come, Haitians will talk about Tuesday January 12 in the same way they remember January…