disasters

Japan marks 69th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

August 6, 2014 By Mari Yamaguchi

Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on President Obama and other world leaders to visit the city to see the scars of the atomic bombing first hand.

Gulf still reeling from effects of BP oil spill

August 5, 2014 By Blake Skylar

Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium released their annual measurement from the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone - in part, the product of the infamous 2010 BP oil spill.

Today in labor history: Pullman strike leader murder sparks huge protest funeral

July 17, 2014 By Special to People’s World

During the Pullman strike, Charles Leonard, a representative of Omaha Railway murdered Charles Luth, a railroad switchman and union activist.

North Dakota pipeline spews saltwater into Native American reservation

July 11, 2014 By Blake Skylar

Lake Sakakawea, a reservoir of the Missouri River, provides drinking water to several communities on the Fort Berthold reservation including the Manda, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes.

Catastrophic destruction from floods in Balkans, landmines swept away

May 21, 2014 By Associated Press

Floodwaters triggered more than 3,000 landslides across the Balkans, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines leftover from the region's 1990s war.