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Reconstruction Zone: Chronicling Haiti's Post-Quake Struggles
“Nobody faced what we have faced here in Haiti.”
Education
Thai College Students Design App to Help Rescue Disaster Survivors
A new student-designed mobile app could make finding disaster survivors much easier.
Design
Skate for Japan: The Latest Creative Relief Effort
An event in July will support relief efforts in Japan by auctioning off skate decks designed by San Francisco Bay Area artists and creative agencies.
Education
Schools Are Helping Devastated Japanese Communities Recover
Students say that getting back to something familiar—school—helps them deal with the stress of living in shelters and having lost loved ones.
Education
One Month After the Earthquake, Japan Hustles to Keep Students on Track
Two-thirds of schools in the ravaged northeastern coastal region are destroyed or damaged, but students will be heading back to class next week.
Environment
Fukushima Now Level 7 Accident, But Is It Really As Bad As Chernobyl?
Fukushima has maxed out the nuclear rating scale, only the second accident to rate 7. So does that really mean that this event is as bad as Chernobyl?
Environment
Slideshow: America's Ten Riskiest Nuclear Reactors
The Nuclear Regulatory Commissions calculated the odds of an earthquake damaging the core of every reactor in the country. Here are the ten riskiest.
Environment
Map: See Which Earthquake-Prone Areas Have the Most People
Check out this map that mashes up population density and seismic risk and put the global earthquake risk in perspective.
Environment
Interactive Map: The Real Seismic Threat to Our Nation's Nuclear Power Plants
This great interactive map from Climate Central lets you see the specific seismic threat to all 104 of the country's active nuclear reactors.
Education
Help Students Fold One Million Origami Cranes and Raise $1 Million for Japan
Here's how to help a grassroots student effort to fold one million paper cranes and raise $1,000,000 for Japanese relief efforts.
Environment
Cascadia: The West Coast Fault Line That Is "Nine Months Pregnant"
The fault zone that produced the largest known earthquake in the Lower 48 is "nine months pregnant and overdue." This time line illustrates it.
Education
An English Teacher is First Known American Casualty in Japan
A 24-year-old English teacher is the first known American casualty of the tsunami.
News
See This Earthquake Ravaged Japanese Highway Rebuilt in Three Days
Check out these amazing photos of a totally devastated stretch of Japanese highway that was rebuilt in three short days.
Environment
Quotatious: Rush Limbaugh Blames Japan's Environmental Consciousness for the Earthquake
Rush Limbaugh says that "Gaia" was trying to tell Japanese environmentalists something with the earthquake and tsunami.
Environment
Map: See Japan Get Battered By 572 Earthquakes in Eight Days
Watch this stunning sequence of the hundreds of aftershocks to the massive 9.0 earthquake that has sent Japan reeling.
Education
Heroes: Teacher Saves 42 Students from Tsunami
Once the tsunami warnings sounded, Robert Bailey knew he only had eight minutes to save his student's lives.
Environment
Video: Helicopters Dump Water On Fukushima Reactors
Watch as helicopters drop tons of water on the Fukushima reactors in a desperate attempt to cool the plant and avoid a meltdown.
News
Slideshow: Buy These Things and Support Relief Efforts in Japan
We know you don't need any material goods as incentive to give, but here are some good people offering proceeds from sales to relief efforts in Japan.
