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climate change

Waterworld Will Be Arriving Faster Than You Think

Waterworld, the Kevin Costner eco-disaster flick that flopped at the box office, turns out to be a lot more prescient than most well-made scifi flicks. Many highly-populated areas of the world that were once safely on dry land have become perpetual flood zones and could slip underwater any year now. For example, several areas in Myanmar were hit with floods this week after Cyclone Nargis (you can see the before and after satellite photos here), and such floods are likely to become more commonplace as as the climate warms. More »

flood

New York City Destroyed. London, You're Next!

New York City has been hammered on by both I Am Legend and Cloverfield, as well as a slew of other films. It's been flooded, frozen, ravaged by viruses, and pummeled by monsters. But London has gotten off rather lightly, having merely been hit by one supervirus in 28 Days Later and the sometimes wonky special effects from multiple episodes of Doctor Who. Recently, however, disgruntled Londoners rejoiced when their city was hit by a massive wall of water in the August miniseries Flood. More »

alternate history

Five Alternate Histories of New York

Michael Chabon reinvented the alternate-history genre with The Yiddish Policemen's Union, his novel about a world where Alaska became the Jewish homeland. So where are the great alternate histories of New York? The city's history is full of disasters and bizarre schemes that could have turned out very differently. Here are five timeline turning-points that might have erased New York as we know it forever. More »