Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere and it is a country that does not seem to get a break. "Geography" my eighth grade teacher Mr. Dress, said "is destiny." Having seen first hand the ...

When it comes to natural disasters, Haiti seems to have a bull's-eye on it. That's because of a killer combination of geography, poverty, social problems, slipshod building standards and bad luck, ...

"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 ...

In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, geography students are participating in a global effort to enhance the international response and recovery effort by helping to assess damage, using images ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (KUNA) -- A powerful earthquake rocked the Caribbean island of Haiti late Tuesday, with a magnitude of 7.0, causing major damage in the capital Port-au-Prince, and leading to ...

Maybe something good did come out of the earthquake that devastated Haiti earlier this year. A boy from Palm Harbor may never have heard of Cap-Haitien if not for the constant news coverage. And it ...

In this book ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that have helped to determine ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (KUNA) -- A 7.2 magnitude struck Haiti, Saturday, with "high casualties" being most probable, said the US Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS indicated, "Red alert for ...

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — A 12-year-old Portsmouth boy, a hospital president, a town councilor, a local police officer and the farmers and academics who are past geography quiz champions will join ...