New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has issued mandatory evacuation orders for low-lying areas of the city by 5 p.m. Saturday.

NYC to end mass transit service at noon Saturday for duration of Irene.

My kids are experiencing their first earthquake and first hurricane in the same week. My son thinks it might signal the end of the world, which would be “Awesome!” He’s 8.

While the Virginia quake doesn’t really qualify as a disaster, it did get me to thinking about one-two-punch disasters. Let’s exclude volcano-earthquake and earthquake-tsunami combos because they arise from the same underlying processes and event.

The best example of an apocalyptic combination of natural disasters that I can recall in modern times is one that never quite seemed to get the attention it deserved then and is often forgotten now, 20 years later: the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines at the same time as a powerful Pacific typhoon was sweeping ashore. Read More

New report shows who has donated millions to Islamophobic groups since 2001.