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The Disaster Diaries

The Disaster Diaries

Exploring natural disasters, how scientists try to forecast them and how people living in danger zones can try to anticipate and prepare for cataclysms.
Documentary, Science

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    Rising Temperatures, Rising Seas
    A Year of Floods and Fire
    Earth Striking Back
  • Rising Temperatures, Rising Seas

    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

    El Niño events of 2016 trigger everything from unprecedented floods to extreme droughts around the globe.
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  • Earth Striking Back

    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.
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