A review of company and regulatory records shows that Japan and its largest utility repeatedly downplayed dangers and ignored warnings about its nuclear plants.

As the 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan has brought the focus on to world disasters that have affected thousands, we take a look at a decade of disasters and all the key data • Get the dataIn the days since disaster first struck Japan, comparisons w...

From GeoEye, published in the New York Times, is an outstanding display of a series of pairs of overlaid images of  "Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami', where one moves the slider interactively to compare satellite images from before and after the disaster. Here are sample images. ...