The Disaster Diaries

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Exploring natural disasters, how scientists try to forecast them and how people living in danger zones can try to anticipate and prepare for cataclysms.
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Rising Temperatures, Rising Seas
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Natural disasters claim 20,000 lives and cause more than $42 billion in damage during 2015, a year marked by tropical storms, drought and hot weather around the world.

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A Year of Floods and Fire
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El Niño events of 2016 trigger everything from unprecedented floods to extreme droughts around the globe.

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Earth Striking Back
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In 2017, local weather anomalies cause flooding and mudslides in South America, wildfires erupt in Europe and America, two deadly earthquakes strike Mexico, and record-breaking hurricanes batter the Caribbean.