disaster

A severe summer drought followed by an extra harsh winter has decimated the livestock in Mongolia and may inextricably end Mongolian nomadic culture. (4:17 min)

Terrified residents throughout Chile were awakened by an 8.8. magnitude earthquake. As Seth Doane reports, aid is already making it’s way to the country. (2:47 min)

Just weeks after the earthquake that took more than 200,000 lives, Avi Lewis finds that debates over how to rebuild Haiti are already underway. (22:35 min)

The indigenous communities of Ecuador are standing up and demanding Chevron-Texaco to clean up its toxic wastewater legacy in the worse environmental disaster since Chernobyl. (28 min)

Segment 1: The science behind Haiti’s earthquake and Segment 2: Haiti’s history of hardship. (5 min, 2 segments)

Anthony Bourdain and the No Reservations crew goes to New Orleans to look at what happened after Hurricane Katrina with the food trade and the people that work it. (44 min, 5 segments)

From a BBC documentary series, this episode shows the awesome power of nature seen through amazing time lapse computer animation. (58 min, 5 segments)

Al Jazeera examines the events and the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986. (23:30 min, 2 segments)