The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 caused catastrophic loss of life and cooled the globe three degrees. By Jack Williams. (June 10, 2016)

Can a town devastated by a nuclear disaster be brought back to life? By Steve Featherstone. (June 20, 2016)

Ninety-two years ago a tornado ripped through downtown Lorain and Sandusky, killing 85 people and causing tens of millions dollars damage, more than a billion dollars in today's dollars. It is the deadliest tornado in Ohio history,

A deceased dog at a burned down residence after the Erskine Fire burned through South Lake.

An impact calculator helps scientists paint a vivid picture of the immediate aftermath of the deadly asteroid strike.

A massive sinkhole has formed next to a shopping mall in downtown Ottawa, causing a gas leak and forcing the evacuation of all nearby businesses.

Kumari Kandam is the legendary lost continent of Lemuria, the center of Tamil Civilization, which existed in the Indian Ocean. By R.S. Pandey.

How one Fort McMurray family built a dream and watched it burn. By Katherine Laidlaw. (May 17, ’16)

Almost 90,000 gallons of crude oil gushed from a Shell oil facility into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast on Thursday, leaving a 13- by 2-mile sheen of oil on the waves, federal authorities said. The Coast Guard said that the spill had been contained and that two companies were being contracted to begin cleanup operations. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which is part of the U.S. Interior Department, said Shell Offshore Inc. reported...

A massive wildfire in Alberta, Canada has moved south, forcing more evacuations on Thursday.It has grown five times its initial size since it broke out, prompting more than 88,000 evacuations.

Thirty years later, the best works written about the accident express profound doubts about language's ability to capture the disaster's magnitude. By Michael LaPointe.

A leak in a massive nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site has expanded significantly, KING 5 learned this [before last] weekend. Crews at Hanford lowered a camera into the two-foot-wide space between the tank’s inner and outer walls on Sunday and discovered 8.4 inches of radioactive and chemically toxic waste. (Apr. 18) [Autoplay video]

Thomas Johnson

After two years of unimaginable tragedy, everyone from outfitters and Sherpas to would-be climbers and the Nepalese government is questioning the future of commercial mountaineering. And then there’s David Morton, a veteran guide who spent the past year asking: What happens when you try to leave the world’s most lucrative mountain forever? By Abe Streep.

Merle Haggard

At least 10 people were killed in the Indian city of Kolkata on Thursday and 150 were feared trapped when a flyover under construction collapsed onto traffic moving along the street below, police said. Firefighters and residents were trying with their bare hands to rescue those trapped under the wreckage of the metal-and-cement structure that came down near Girish Park in a teeming commercial district.

A Japanese town devastated by the 2011 tsunami struggles to remake itself.

Poverty is rife, thousands have died and children have joined the fighting – Yemen’s year of civil war has been a catastrophe. By Kareem Shaheen.

In 1919 a wave of molasses traveling at 35mph destroyed an entire neighborhood.

One year after a young pilot plunged a German airliner into the remote French Alps—a suicide that transfixed and horrified the world—Joshua Hammer investigates what really happened that day