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The National Geographic documentary programme Seconds From Disaster investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters from the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incident by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately affected the disaster.
Animal rescuer and cinematographer Douglas Thron is passionate about saving animals after natural disasters — and uses special, time-saving technology to help him do it.
The majority of the collection is of declared disasters and there are also photographs from significant public events that have occurred on or near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Since August 30, 2005, 6,098 images have been added to the collection; Hurricane Katrina has the most photographs in the collection with around 3,000 images.
Muskingum County Animal Farm was a private zoo located in Zanesville, Ohio, United States. The animal farm had been repeatedly reported for inadequate and unsafe housing for the animals, as well as insufficient water and food. Neighbors had previously complained of animals escaping "improper fencing" and causing damage to neighboring property. [1]
Mississippi counties declared federal disaster areas. In Tunica County, nine casinos located on stationary river barges were closed most of May. The hotel portion of the casinos are located on adjacent, low-lying land, and began to flood with the rising waters, some up to 6 feet (1.8 m). [23]
Chernobyl disaster: acute radiation syndrome: Maryann DeLeo 2003 Children of Tsunami: No More Tears: Natural disasters: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami: Satya Sivaraman, Nur Raihan, Suren de Silva, and Pipope Panitchpakdi 2005 The City Dark: Light pollution: Ian Cheney: 2011 Climate Refugees: Climate change: effects on natural ...
Lake Nyos, the site of a limnic eruption in 1986. A limnic eruption, also known as a lake overturn, is a very rare type of natural hazard in which dissolved carbon dioxide (CO 2) suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of asphyxiating wildlife, livestock, and humans.
Documentary films about natural disasters, major adverse events resulting from natural processes of the Earth. Examples are floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes.