In The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh argues that today’s climate crisis is rooted in the imperialism that birthed the modern world. By Stacey Balkan.

These before and after satellite images illustrate the devastation that Haiti has suffered.

On October 1, 2015, the container ship El Faro sailed directly into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. When it sank it took the lives of all 33 aboard, including eight New Englanders. Rachel Slade wanted to know what happened and why. You will not soon forget what she found.

Team Rubicon began in 2010 with a unique dual mission: providing disaster relief and giving struggling American veterans a vital sense of purpose. The program has a reputation for ignoring best practices and obliterating red tape, and it has already disrupted the aid industry. Now founder Jake Wood wants to take on the Red Cross. By Kyle Dickman.

Indonesia’s capital is working to dredge its network of rivers and canals, long blocked with garbage and a central contributor to chronic flooding. By Joe Cochrane.

Thousands of residents in China’s Shanxi province have been evacuated as villages next to mines have started sinking, after decades of reckless coal mining

One of the most powerful and destructive storms in North Carolina’s history made landfall on Sept. 5, 1996, when Hurricane Fran left a significant swath of damage across the state.

This is what decades of poverty, corruption, and abandonment found in many majority-black cities throughout the Midwest and South looks like. By Sarah Kendzior.

“Trey Poirrier and Jerry Gravois stood in waist-deep floodwater near the St. Amant Fire Department Monday morning trying, unsuccessfully, to reach a relative’s waterlogged home. Nearby, caskets were floating around the Methodist church. Volunteer boaters sailed by them with a rescued family of five, including three girls young enough to attend close-by Lake Primary School, also under water.” By Steve Hardy and David J. Mitchell.

Days of heavy rain have caused historic flooding in the US state of Louisiana, bringing as much as 31in (79cm) across a third of the state of Louisiana.

A deluge on the Yellow River 4,000 years ago led to a feat of Bronze Age hydro-engineering. By Annalee Newitz.

Temperatures, sea levels and carbon dioxide all hit milestones amid extreme weather in 2015, major international ‘state of the climate’ report finds. By Oliver Milman.

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Discovery provides possible explanation for increasing deaths of honeybees in recent years, according to scientists. By Damian Carrington.

Southern California’s latest wildfire is a sign of things to come. By Eric Holthaus.

The FBI recovered the data from a hard drive, but Malaysian authorities have not made the finding public. By Jeff Wise. (July 22, 2016 )

We should welcome the fact that amateur astronomers are increasingly keeping tabs on what's going on up above. By Daniel Brown.

The Trojan War depicted in Homer's Iliad may have been part of a larger clash of civilisations – one of which has so far gone unrecognised by modern historians. By Colin Barras. (May 12, 2016)  

Over 100 years after the most powerful explosion in documented history, researchers are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. By Melissa Hogenboom.

As the Earth’s temperature continues to rise at an alarming rate, the country faces the threat of catastrophic flooding. By Simon Parkin.