Environment & Climate
In photos: Southwest Haiti after Hurricane Matthew
The death toll rose to almost 140 on Thursday in what United Nations officials are calling the worst humanitarian crisis to hit impoverished Haiti since a devastating 2010 earthquake.
A man carries a woman in his arms across the La Digue river in Petit Goave when a bridge was swept away during Hurricane Matthew, severing road transport to the southwest peninsula.
Héctor Retamal / Getty Images
Small towns along the western coast of Haiti suffered extreme damage from storm surge during Hurricane Matthew. This photo was tweeted by a United Nations aerial survey.
Logan Abassi/United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
An aerial view of hard-hit Jeremie on the north coast of Haiti's southwestern peninsula. The eye of Matthew passed over the town of 40,000 damaging almost every home.
Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Aerial photo of of the coastal city of Jeremie after the passage of Hurricane Matthew.
Carlos García Rawlins/Reuters
Volunteers bury the dead in Jeremie one of the hardest hit citiies in Haiti's southwest
Carlos Garcia Rawlings/Reuters
Hurricane Matthew passed over the colonial coastal city of Jeremie on Tuesday causing extensive damage.
Carlos García Rawlins/Reuters
Almost all the homes in the town of Jeremie suffered damage from Hurricane Matthew.
Maarten Boute
A flooded river and destroyed houses are seen after Hurricane Matthew passes Jeremie, Haiti, October 5, 2016.
REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
A man and a woman pick through rubble of a home in Ile-a-Vache after the passage of Hurricane Matthew. The island of 10,000 people suffered massive damage to homes.
Samuel Altema
Matthew destroyed many homes and crops on Ile-a-Vache, a poor community of 10,000 people who make their living from agriculture and fishing
Samuel Altema
Ile-a-vache de Maarten Boute. Muchas casas son destruidos. La isla está sin comida y agua potable. El ejercito americana va a hacer un airdrop hoy (5) Download Open original More actions
Samuel Altema
Matthew ripped the roof from this church in Les Cayes, Haití.
Hector Retamal/Getty Images
A woman and her daughter in the ruins of their home in Les Cayes, Haití.
Dieu Nalio Chery/Ap
People gather next to a collapsed bridge after Hurricane Matthew passes Petit Goave, Haiti, October 5, 2016.
REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
The flooded streets of Les Cayes, Haiti.
Andrés Martínez Casares/Reuters
Man walking in Port-au-Prince slum, Cite Soleil, after Hurricane Matthew
HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty ImagesRelacionados: