Nov 18th, 2008 · Residents of a fire-ravaged mobile home park in the Los Angeles suburb of Sylmar are allowed to return home. About 500 of 600 homes in the complex were destroyed Saturday as wildfires raked Southern California.
Sep 30th, 2008 · Hurricanes Gustav and Ike ravaged the off-shore drilling stations in the Gulf of Mexico, seriously hurting pumping ability and supply networks. Consumers in some states are now facing general gasoline shortages and long lines at the pump.
Sep 16th, 2008 · Half a million people have electricity again in parts of Texas ravaged by Hurricane Ike. But nearly 4 million people are still without power, and energy companies say they are working furiously to restore full power to the Houston area.
Sep 15th, 2008 · After Hurricane Ike struck this weekend, the city of Galveston is without power and an estimated 80 structures are damaged. Residents who chose to stay through the hurricane are now being asked by officials to leave.
Aug 6th, 2008 · Speedskater Joey Cheek had planned to spend a couple of weeks in China, but his visa was revoked 24 hours before he was to leave. The Olympic medalist is the co-founder of Team Darfur, a group of athletes hoping to raise awareness about the crisis in the war-ravaged section of Sudan.
Jun 14th, 2008 · A fungus that only attacks cacao trees swept through eastern Brazil in the late 1980s and early '90s, ravaging the area's cocoa industry. The blight set in motion a series of events that changed the ecology of the entire region, a devastating lesson in the laws of nature.
Jun 7th, 2008 · It's been more than a month since a cyclone ravaged Myanmar and killed 78,000 people, leaving another 56,000 missing. The United Nations says that to date, relief aid has reached only half of the more than 2 million survivors. Aid workers and survivors describe the disaster and conditions since Cyclone Nargis. Doualy Xaykaothao reports.
May 28th, 2008 · In a new memoir, author Ta-nehisi Coates recalls growing up in drug-ravaged West Baltimore in the 1980s. Titled The Beautiful Struggle, the book documents the life of his Black Nationalist father, who worked hard to keep his two boys from falling into the drug world that surrounded them.