Kids squealed with delight just feet from impromptu graveyards erected just days after December 26, 2004. It is a mixture of heartbreak and hope, joy tempered on this island by the memory of a past much too recent to die.
Read more at http://crs.org/ By Cecile Sorra Even though Catholic Relief Services is an agency seasoned with more than 65 years' experience respondi...
Five years ago the world watched in horror as nearly 230,000 people, particularly women and children, perished in the tsunami that struck south Asia.
I returned to Sri Lanka for eight months after the tsunami to work on my book about the island Not Quite Paradise. I thought I had finished the book in 2004, but then the wave hit. And everything changed.
Five years on from the terrible tsunami of 2004 that ravished our island, now is truly an exciting time for Sri Lanka. We are creating a land of opportunity for all Sri Lankans and no one will be left behind.
In Aceh, the area hardest hit five years ago, homes have been rebuilt, families reunited and a stable government installed in a province that was battling a deep separatist conflict prior to the tsunami.
Little Tsunami sits on a rock by the sea, watching the boats sail by in the distance. Every now and then, she pushes back the hair the evening sea breeze playfully pulls across her eyes.
Five years ago, when the world experienced the deadliest tsunami in recorded history, the raging force of nature was met with an equally powerful countervailing force: the compassion of the human heart.
A survivor holds a plastic clock, plucked from the rubble of his family's home, frozen at exactly the moment the tsunami engulfed their house. There...
As the polar ice caps continue to melt, it apparently won't be just the polar bears who are threatened. The City of the Angels could become a shallow inland sea.
Scientists agree that dams can trigger earthquakes. A new paper presents evidence that the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan Province in 2008, was triggered by the Zipingpu Dam.
I would have encouraged Cuba's foreign minister to say that the embargo was an anachronism of the Cold War, has not achieved the goals the US had for it, and harmed both Cuban and US interests.
Twenty years after the Loma Prieta Earthquake annihilated Downtown Santa Cruz, locals gathered to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the quake, which significantly altered the future of the coastal town.
CAN-DO was born out of my own frustration with the system and the critical need I saw to hold charitable organizations accountable for hard-earned donations and to the communities they serve.
Acehnese identity is intimately related to Indonesia's wish for integration into the world and historical desires for independence. Many there crave true freedom, but know it's long off.
Stop and imagine what would happen if a dirty bomb struck your nearest downtown. What would a child care center do with your kids to keep them safe?
Is this our problem? What about the 5 million flooded-out people now in India? They are if you consider yourself a global citizen and have the wisdom to see that climate change has caused these particular disasters.
When a disaster hits, it is too late to put your best people in charge of planning and preparation. That's not the place for soft political patronage.
Great news here! Oil companies are going to have a great opportunity to drill in the Arctic Sea floor to find more fossil fuels, because the Arctic Circle will soon be ice-free in the summers.
Earlier this week I returned from a trip to the country, seeing first-hand some of the extensive damage and visiting with victims and relief workers.
"I was just thinking I have to save my Adik (little brother)", says Eman a construction worker with an incredible story of courage and survival in the wake of the recent Sumatran earthquake.
