La Niña Decoded

Send us Fan Mail Cascading Disasters 1. Hazard Examples: conflict, drought, flooding, or disruption to shipping.Icon: lightning bolt or explosion symbol over a globe.Caption: A sudden or ongoing event that threatens people or systems. 2. Exposure Icon: map with people, roads, and buildings inside t…

Send us Fan Mail Bangkok is sinking. So are Jakarta, New Orleans, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, and dozens of other delta metropolises around the world. Thai landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom likes to joke that her version of a climate-change photo isn’t a melting glacier — it’s a crocodile swim…

Send us Fan Mail How can immigration policy in one small Spanish territory affect relations between Spain, Morocco and the wider European Union? At first glance, Ceuta seems too small to have much influence on European politics. It has a population of roughly 85,000 and covers only a small area of …

Send us Fan Mail The Philippines lies between several moving tectonic plates, which makes earthquakes very common. To the east, the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting, or sinking, beneath the islands. To the west, other plates and marginal seas are also pushing and sliding in complicated ways. On t…