The unidentified dead were heaped into trucks and dumped into the freshly dug earth, resting forever in ... taking precedence over Islam. When natural gas was discovered in 1971, the Acehnese ...

David Wallace Wells, author of "The Uninhabitable Earth," reviews the year in climate. The head of the United Nations has described 2024 as a "master class in climate destruction." Then, author Tana ...

Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across ...

Superflares are extremely strong solar flares, explosions with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar flares ...

(File Photo: AP/Bullit Marquez) The tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters recorded in history, was caused by the movement of tectonic plates which make up the earth’s surface and float on ...

One of modern history's worst natural disasters, the tsunami left about 230,000 dead across a dozen countries. BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand — The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that ...

The death toll reached 103 in North Carolina, 232 in the South. Hurricane Helene is arguably the worst natural disaster in state history. Hurricanes Floyd in 1999 and Hazel in 1954 have their ...

The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history, killing 230,000 people across a dozen countries. Indonesia's Aceh province bore the brunt of the ...

In all, 790 people were killed in what was considered the worst natural disaster in U.S. Navy history.