Workers at the drilling site for a geothermal energy plant in Neustadt-Glewe, Germany. Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in ...

Sixty miles of river. Murky waters, thick mud and seemingly insurmountable piles of debris. Painstaking recovery efforts are still underway for around 100 people missing following the devastating July ...