Thousands of Fukushima Refugees Forgotten
Over two years after an earthquake and tsunami devastated areas in and around the Japanese city of Fukushima, many residents have been left to live in impromptu residential camps with no hope of returning to their previous ways of life
Fukushima is Destroying the Pacific Ocean
The operator of the leaking Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it dumped more than 1,000 tons of polluted water into the sea after a typhoon raked the facility
Years After Earthquake, Haiti Housing is Catastrophic [Video]
Three years after the Haiti earthquake the housing situation in the country is nothing short of catastrophic. Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in fragile shelters
Sandy Leaves Haiti Starving
Humanitarian groups assessing the damage caused by the storm warned the island’s population, still reeling from the disasters of the last two years, was at risk of hunger after the downpours destroyed farmland and crops
Haitians Protest Their President
Hundreds of Haitians have taken to the streets of capital Port-au-Prince to protest higher living costs in the country, calling for President Michel Martelly to resign
Haitians Protest Slum Evictions
Port-au-Prince acts as a magnet in the poor Caribbean nation, which was struck by a catastrophic 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 225,000 people and displaced 1.5 million, one in six of the population.
Japan Protests Nuclear Reactor
Dozens of protesters in Japan have shouted and danced at the gate of a nuclear power plant after it restarted, the first to go back online since the country shut down all of its reactors for safety checks following the Fukushima nuclear disaster
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