Typhoon vs Hurricane: A Global Spin on Humanity’s Favorite Spin Cycle By “Marina Monsoon,” Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Weather-Industrial Desk If you’ve ever watched a weather map and wondered why the apocalypse is spelled “typhoon” in Tokyo, “hurricane” in Houston, and “just another Tuesday” in the Philippines, congratulations—you’ve stumbled onto the most expensive game of…
Typhoon Season: The Planet’s Annual Game of Whack-a-Muman By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk It’s late summer again, which means three things: airline Wi-Fi still doesn’t work, Europe is discovering new ways to barbecue itself, and the Western Pacific is firing bowling balls the size of Belgium at coastlines from Luzon to Kyushu. Typhoon season has…
September 19: The Day the Planet Pretended to Be Shocked September 19 rolls around every year with the reliability of a monsoon and the moral clarity of a hedge fund manager. It is the calendar’s version of a raised eyebrow—never quite the headline, always the punchline. Yet from Tokyo’s fluorescent boardrooms to the dust-blown cafés…
Kīlauea’s Latest Tantrum: The Volcano That Won’t Take a Vacation By Dave’s International Desk HAWAIʻI—While the rest of us mortals debate whether to take a stay-cation or risk a budget airline, Kīlauea has once again rolled up its lava sleeves and declared, “I’m working overtime, peasants.” On Wednesday, fountains of molten rock leapt 80 meters…
**Tsunami Warning: Humanity’s Biannual Reminder That the Ocean Is Still Boss** By the time the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center hits “send” on its all-caps love letter to coastlines, half the planet is already memeing wave-height graphics and the other half is Googling “how fast do tsunamis run, asking for a friend.” From Tokyo’s stock-exchange floor…
**Earth to Athens: When the Cradle of Civilization Rocks and Rolls** The earth moved in Athens this week, and for once it wasn’t because of another austerity protest. A 5.2 magnitude earthquake rattled Greece’s capital, sending residents fleeing into the streets and reminding everyone that while democracy may have been born here, Mother Nature remains…
FLOOD WARNING: A WORLDWIDE INVITATION TO DON’T PANIC (TOO MUCH) By the time you finish this sentence, somewhere between Venice and Vientiane, a municipal loudspeaker will blare the same cheery lie: “This is only a drill.” Translation: the river has broken up with its banks and is now speed-dating entire neighborhoods. From Bangladesh’s Brahmaputra to…
