From ancient eruptions to modern nuclear meltdowns, these catastrophes forever altered human history. Join us as we explore ...

Natural disasters have a way of humbling humanity, showing us just how powerful nature can be. These events can cause ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...

In the period between 1961 to 2025, 14 US, 4 USSR and 1 Israeli astronaut died. In addition to these incidents, 11 astronauts, test pilots, and other personnel have been killed during training or ...

That is one of the reasons behind the WMO’s efforts to improve early warnings of multiple hazards and impact-based forecasting, and to learn lessons gleaned from historical disasters to prevent ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

The rain caused rivers and creeks to rise to historic levels, and former President Joe Biden approved a disaster declaration in Kentucky. Part of Main Street is closed because of high flood waters ...

That still ranks in the top tier of human-caused disasters in the United States and is the nation’s third-largest oil spill, behind only the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez calamities.