A Look at the Heroes Helping to Rebuild New Orleans
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, die-hard citizens like these seven are bringing the city back to life.
By Tamara Reynolds
We have the safest food supply in the world, but is it good enough?
By Kathryn Wallace in Reader's Digest - August 2004
Droughts and half-drained reservoirs raise an ominous question: Is America running out of water?
By Joseph K. Vetter in Reader's Digest - May 2008
Best of America: Disaster Doctor
This doctor turned his own hardships around by traveling the world to help others in the wake of disaster.
As told to Carol Kaufman in Reader's Digest - June 2008
A volunteer goes deep into Hurricane Katrina's disaster zone and reports on the sacrifice, death, and destruction.
By Derek Burnett in Reader's Digest - November 2005
The family was fast asleep -- the next moment they were fighting for their lives.
By William M. Hendryx in Reader's Digest - July 2006
George Griffin's fellow physicians thought he was a goner. But they didn't figure on one thing.
By Jerome Groopman, M.D. in Reader's Digest - March 2004
On May 12, a major earthquake jolted southwestern China's Sichuan Province. Located 100 kilometers from the earthquake’s epicenter, Juyuan Middle School collapsed immediately in its wake. See the school’s survivors and the heroes who risked everything to save them.
By Michael Wang and Joel Poon
Kivalina, Alaska: A Disappearing Town
At the tip of a barrier island 80 miles above the Arctic Circle, the town of Kivalina, Alaska, is melting into the sea. The 400-resident population, 97% Native-Alaskan Inupiats, will most likely have to relocate before their entire town is washed away by rising sea levels.
A year after Katrina, Reader's Digest returns to New Orleans to see how one neighborhood is coming back to life.
By Derek Burnett in Reader's Digest - August 2006
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