Natural disasters such as earthquakes, flooding, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions can occur without warning or with greater force than anticipated. These events reshape people’s lives as well as our landscape and remind us that we’re not as in control as we thought. In the first installment of this course, you will prepare to read and watch Russian-language media reporting on a tsunami in Indonesia, wildfires in Sweden, what to do in an earthquake, a volcano in Guatemala, and catastrophic flooding in the Black Sea region.
