BP spent Monday preparing possible solutions to stem oil leaks from an undersea well off the Louisiana coast, and fending off new accusations about its role in the widening environmental disaster.
After the power went down in Lower Manhattan, one New Jersey real estate executive confided, "my phone lit up like you wouldn't believe" with calls from companies displaced by the ever-widening disaster in and around the trade center.
The widening environmental calamity in the gulf is the first time Mr. Obama has confronted a domestic disaster.
The repercussions of climate change, widening poverty gaps, natural disasters, conflicts, gender, disability and global recession on education, all require urgent and sustainable solutions that must be generated by a wide range of partners.
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for donations of nearly a half billion dollars to aid flood victims in Pakistan as the magnitude of the disaster widened, with about one-fifth of the country submerged and the annual monsoon season still potent.
There are over 22,000 children in 265 dormitories in need of urgent assistance, but this number grows every few days as the severe conditions spread across the rest of the country widening the net cast by the disaster," Flowers said.
But her reality will also be beset by obstacles: growing social and political instability, widening economic inequity, rising incidence of natural disasters and increasing epidemics of non-communicable diseases, among them.
The government had initially resorted to drawing rings around the plant, evacuating everyone within a radius of first 1.9 miles, then 6.2 miles and then 12.4 miles, widening the rings as the scale of the disaster became clearer.
Hope now lies with widening cracks in the security forces, whose members suffer from economic disaster like everyone else.
First, we must work around apathy, confusion of purpose, and a lack of monetary resources to widen the spotlight of disaster medical response from the prehospital arena to include the hospital.
