Note sull'episodio
How much warning does it actually take to save you? This week: a glacier collapse buries villages across the Nepal-Tibet border with zero warning system in place, while a Greenland glacier tells scientists exactly where it'll crack next — years in advance. A Pakistani hospital nursery burns with its exits reportedly locked. The cover story traces three warnings through history: Galveston's deadliest-ever hurricane (the warning existed, the bureaucracy was too slow), the 2004 tsunami (no system existed, one ten-year-old's geography lesson saved a beach), and Japan's 2011 earthquake alert (a system that worked perfectly and still missed the real killer). Plus: the 1946 tsunami that took five hours to cross the Pacific with nowhere to deliver its warning, Venice Film Festival's broken parity pledge, and a pangolin species that's been correctly labeled in a museum drawer since 1836.