From infamous ships like the Titanic to lesser-known but equally important vessels such as the SS Eastland and the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, history has had no shortage of such tragedies. Curious about ...

Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka. “He said there are children still stuck in the landslide, so he'll go and help them and come ...

There has been no let-up in nature’s fury; torrential rains and gale-force winds continue to lash many parts of Sri Lanka, ...

Two major disasters hit the city of Chania in Crete on December 8th in the space of only three years with a loss of more than ...

In Thailand, authorities say they have seen one of the heaviest single events of rainfall in hundreds of years, followed by ...

The civil war in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The region is still grappling with past traumas.

One of the worst industrial disasters in India, the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, took place on 1984. As per official reports, around 3 ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

While global economics can sometimes seem boring, at its core lies the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. This figure ...

The world has entered a phase where instability is no longer an interruption of normality but the permanent architecture of ...

A fault line in Canada's Yukon territory has stirred after more than 12,000 years of geological sleep. Researchers studying ...