Claire Harbage
Story Archive
Saturday
Kaliko Kaauamo (left), Kilihune Ka'aihue and Aleah Gomes Makuakāne all work at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center in Hawaii. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Friday
Danilo Andres, 60, outside his home in Lahaina. The fire jumped his home and a surrounding cluster. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Their house miraculously survived the wildfire, but no longer feels like home
Tuesday
Cori Gross, bartender at Java Jazz, greets residents with bursts of joy to see that they've survived the fires. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Monday
Pro surfers organized a Saturday morning surf session to help kids do something they love at Ho'okipa Beach on the island's north shore. It's about an hour's drive from Lahaina. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Wednesday
Eduard Skoryk (center) helps lift Viktor Nesterov onto an evacuation train. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Friday
Shaimaa Ali Ahmed, 12, lost her leg at age 6 after happening upon an unexploded rocket. Yemeni children like her bear an outsized burden from the civil war, where land mines and ordnance litter the landscape. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
She's 12. A rocket took her leg. She defines the pain and resilience of Yemen
Tuesday
Yuriy Kopishynskyi stands with a horse at his family's horseback riding school on Khortytsia, an island on the Dnipro River just outside Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Saturday
Victoria Amelina stands next to a cherry tree in the backyard of Volodymyr Vakulenko, a Ukrainian children's book author, where he buried his diary of living under Russian occupation in Kapytolivka before he was killed. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
She saved the diary of a Ukrainian writer killed by Russia. Then she was killed, too
Friday
Patrons at a club in Kharkiv hold sparklers in the darkened room in eastern Ukraine. Despite the ongoing war, people are still finding a way release tension in nightclubs in the the battered city. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Thursday
Michel looks through some camouflage netting near his home in Kherson. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Wednesday
Abdullah Saif Ahmed Numan and his grandson, Mohammad, stand in the building where they live in Al Dawah neighborhood of Taiz, Yemen. The neighborhood is on the front line of a divided city in Yemen's civil war. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
A front-line city in Yemen is desperate for change after nearly a decade of civil war
Wednesday
Pipes direct water into an irrigation project held by the University of California. After a few decades of not enough water California water officials are scrambling to catch as much of this year's floodwaters as they can. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Friday
In California's Central Valley, a long-disappeared lake has been resurrected. A power line dangles precariously over the edge of the water now filling the Tulare Lake Basin, and a building on the horizon is caught in the middle of the flood. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Friday
People view fields of flowers at Carrizo Plain National Monument, California's largest remaining grassland. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
California's destructively wet winter has a bright side. You'll want to see it
A high-rise building in Kharkiv's Saltivka district, once home to at least 400,000 people, is damaged from shelling during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
This Ukrainian widower's superpower is repairing the home he shared with his wife
Wednesday
Left: Daniel Bizyayev and his family now live in a suburban neighborhood about an hour north of New York City. Center: Bohdan Semenukha and his mom, Viktoria, look at photos from before the Russian invasion. Right: Sofiia Kuzmina and her family live on the 10th floor in Kharkiv. When the power is out, they have to climb the stairs. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
How the war in Ukraine has forever changed the children in one kindergarten class
Monday
Viktor and Liubov Lada in the kitchen of their new apartment. The couple was at home when their previous apartment was hit by Russian artillery. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Ukraine's elderly often remain behind; here's how they've survived a year of war
Thursday
Soldiers spend time swimming in the pool during the course. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
A rehab center revives traumatized Ukrainian troops before their return to battle
Sunday
A howitzer is fired at a training area in the Volyn region. Ukraine is using this region, quiet for the moment, to train troops for the front line in the east. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
On the border with Belarus, Ukrainian troops prep for a long war — and the front line
Monday
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks at a school in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Saturday
A view inside what was the dome of the historic Habib-i Najjar Mosque in Antakya. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Turkey's Antakya is in ruins after the quake, erasing cultural and religious heritage
Friday
Displaced people from eastern Ukraine spill out of a train station in Lviv, in western Ukraine, last March. At this point, more than 2 million people had fled the country as a result of Russia's invasion. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Wednesday
Employees box up baklava for customers at Imam Cagdas in Gaziantep, Turkey. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Baklava took a break in Turkey's pastry capital after the earthquake. Now it's back
An empty baby cart in a maternity hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption