For the first time ever, the world is facing the very real possibility of not one, but four simultaneous famines—in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen. Thirty million people are facing starvation and living on the brink of what could become the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time.

When one of the strongest storms in recorded history slammed the Philippines in 2013, more than 6,000 people lost their lives and 90 percent of homes in the hardest hit areas were damaged or destroyed.

In many ways Yakeen is like any little girl. She’s approaching her second birthday. Her cheeks are flushed a rosy red by the winter chill. The sudden appearance of strangers in her house leaves her clinging to her mother’s long skirt.

“We’ve been buried alive:” Inside Eastern Ghouta’s underground bunkers. Since aerial assaults intensified in this suburb of Damascus on Feb. 18, many residents have moved into basements or other underground shelters, in order to escape the bombardment, which has killed more than 1,700 civilians and injured over 5,000.