"It's because they're so vulnerable, any event tips the balance," said Cutter, director of the school's Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. "They don't have the kind of resiliency that other ...

After discussing geography with some of the Haitians in his community, Troy, a US missionary working in rural Haiti, concludes — in what is certainly an over-generalization — that “in the Haitian ...

In terms of information and awareness, the earthquake in Haiti is “the most immediate disaster we’ve ever had,” says Marguerite Madden, a geography professor at University of Georgia. Here’s a look at ...

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Naming three of the five former Soviet republics that border China, or identifying the mountain range that cuts across two continents, is not normally in the job description of ...