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Typhoon Haiyan

a woman with her left leg amputated at the knee sits in a doorway

For Filipinos with disabilities, climate change and natural disasters are a dangerous mix

Climate Change

Climate change-related disasters have the potential to disrupt access to caregivers, assistive devices and medical supplies, which many people with a physical disability depend on, says Alex Ghenis of the Berkeley, California-based World Institute on Disability.

Sonia Guinansaca and Susana Garcia of the activist group CultureStrike will be carrying these images of crops and animals threatened by climate change in Sunday’s People’s Climate March in New York City.

When environmental activists march in New York, look for immigrants at the head of the parade

Environment
Jing Geronimo, inmate Roberto Maanyo, and their son Robert James outside the small shack the family shares on the grounds of the Leyte Provincial Prison on the outskirts of Tacloban.

In typhoon-hit Tacloban, some families have moved into the local prison

Development & Education
Farmer Felipe Parado Jr., 59, has collected the sap of coconut palms, to make wine, since he was a child.

Typhoon Haiyan felled this man’s trees and uprooted his life

Development & Education
Delma Yerro, 53, and her granddaughter Heavenly at their sari-sari store in Tacloban, Philippines.

After Haiyan, Filipinos try to rebuild a cherished local link in the retail chain

Business, Economics and Jobs
storms

Storm expert says climate change may have played a big role in Typhoon Haiyan after all

Environment

Atmospheric scientist and tropical storm expert Kerry Emanuel has taken a deeper look at the possible influence of climate change on supertyphoon Haiyan, and has found that global warming may have had a good deal more to do with the storm’s intensity than he originally thought.

David Guttenfelder photographs the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.

Stunning photos document the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan

Environment

AP photojournalist David Guttenfelder has been covering the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan and documenting the disaster via his Instagram feed. Some of his images, particularly of a newborn baby being kept alive by her parents hand-pumping oxygen into her lungs, are haunting.

The Vergara family is rebuilding a home on the site of the one devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, using lumber and corrugated tin gathered from the wreckage.

This simple story shows what it means for survivors to rebuild their lives after Typhoon Haiyan

Development & Education

The Vergera family had 10 people before the storm. Now, there are three. They live on one meal a day amidst the debris, barricaded from thieves at night. But leaving is out of the question, at least for now.

Thinking about posting a selfie? Try an #unselfie

Development & Education

Have you ever posted a selfie? You know — the self-shot self-portraits that are popular on social media sites? If you haven’t, perhaps now’s the time — though maybe you should consider an #unselfie.

Typhoon Haiyan

‘I’ve never walked through an area with so many bodies’

Development & Education

One week after Typhoon Haiyan, or Typhoon Yolanda is it is known locally, ravaged the central Philippines, the scope of the tragedy is still hard to grasp. One reporter describes the situation today in Tacloban.