Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive share the harrowing accounts of people who found high ground or clung to debris ...

The world is unpredictable, and even the safest nuclear power plant can’t guarantee that it will hold up against whatever tragedy is coming next. The morning light was peaking over the sandstone bluff ...

Some 160,000 people fled their homes in Fukushima, Japan, 15 years ago because of the radiation spewed from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Menon’s protagonist ponders friendship, family, and grief, along with the consolations and devastations of water. As the book progresses Marissa, who like Menon has moved to New York from an Asian ...

Climate change is making extreme weather events and natural hazards more frequent and intense. Here’s how to prepare before ...

The SS Richard Montgomery went down in the Thames Estuary with thousands of tonnes of ammunition in August 1944 ...

An asteroid that struck Earth more than 43 million years ago likely generated a 100-metre tsunami, a group of scientists recently announced. The study may put an end to the debate surrounding the ...

Imagine if there were a creature capable of providing a warning that an impending cataclysmic seismic event was about to ...

Picture a space rock the size of a football pitch crashing into the North Sea's shallow seabed 43 to 46 million years ago.