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

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

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

The asteroid struck off the coast of England more than 43 million years ago ...

Oʻahu rescuers used paddleboards and kayaks, jet skis and backhoes to evacuate residents around Waialua and Haleʻiwa ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

From parish politics to major wars, Peter Rhodes covered it all. In an article published in 2021 he looked back on some favourite moments. Today we republish his memories of a remarkable career.

Although commonly described as a tsunami, the titular wave in The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is more likely an example of a large rogue wave. For centuries, sailors spoke of two maritime ...