In 1362, the Grote Mandrenke drowned Rungholt beneath the North Sea. The storm was natural, but generations...
MainCarousel-070226
In 2006, a mud volcano erupted beside a gas well in East Java, burying villages and turning...
Ancient Sumer flourished by mastering irrigation, but the same canals that fed its cities slowly concentrated salt...
The 1889 Johnstown Flood was not simply an act of God. It was a Gilded Age disaster...
The Dust Bowl was not simply a natural disaster. Drought triggered the crisis, but decades of human...
Rivers did not stay put. Coastlines receded. Earthquakes reshaped terrain. These disruptions did more than challenge surveying...
Severe droughts between 800 and 1000 CE may have helped destabilize Classic Maya cities already strained by...
Tree-ring records reveal that medieval North America endured long megadroughts shaped by persistent aridity, shifting ocean patterns,...
In China, petroleum was used more than 2000 years ago. Introduction While the local use of oil...
Coal-hungry inventions of the Industrial Revolution created a massive and sustained boom in coal mining. Introduction Coal...
The 1927 disaster exposed a country divided by stereotypes, united by modernity. On May 1, 1927, The New...
The disaster drew the first class action lawsuit against the United States government, on behalf of 8,485...
The North Sea Flood of 1953 devastated coastal communities in Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium, exposing weak...
Written down in the mid-17th century BCE, the Atrahasis can be dated to the reign of the...
Memories of the largest lava flood in the history of Iceland, recorded in an apocalyptic medieval poem,...