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.

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 ...

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

I thought the world was ending’ as Boxing Day Tsunami washed Merseyside man away. December 26, 2024, marks 20 years since the Boxing Day Tsunami killed 227,898 people across ...

New research shows structure is one of Earth’s rare impact craters after massive asteroid struck region millions of years ago ...

Discover the origins of the Silverpit crater in the North Sea, formed by a colossal asteroid impact that triggered a 100-metre tsunami towards ancient Britain ...