Posts Tagged ‘ disaster ’

WARSAW, Poland- I have a Polish flag with a black ribbon hanging outside of my dorm window. Every room in my housing unit has a flag with a black ribbon on its windows too. We mourn because of April 10th, 2010 when a plane transporting the president and other important political figures crashed by the Read More »

The end is the means to the beginning. End of the world or just a wrong interpretation? This is the question being asked in the movie 2012, which is directed by Roland Emmerich. 2012 is a movie about the expected ending of the world in December 2012. The film goes in depth on the apocalypse Read More »

Since September 23, 2009, the Philippines has been experiencing weeks of destruction from floods, landslides, storms and typhoons. “In the Philippines it’s normal to have storms and floods, but when the second flood hit, it caused a lot of damage,” said Alfredo Salmos a native of the Philippines. According to reliefweb.int tropical storm Ketsana hit Read More »

It’s no longer about polar bears, melting ice caps, or even global warming. Climate change is now the biggest national and global security crisis, as confirmed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Since climate change is a serious issue, the United Nations’ 192 members plan to meet in December in Copenhagen, Denmark to create another agreement Read More »

The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War estimated the death toll of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster to be between 50,000 to 100,000 people. Nuclear power is one of the most explosive innovations known to man, yet Iran has refused to cease its enrichment of uranium. On September 21, 2009, Iran informed the International Read More »