catastrophes

In addition to killing as many as 125 million people, a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would unleash…

2018 was the year climate change became ever clearer, with wildfires, cyclones, and hurricanes ravaging the world.…

Here’s a cheery thought to send you into the weekend: New research suggests that the greatest danger posed by an…

Recently, a group of forward-looking thinkers compiled a list of catastrophes that could kill off 10 percent or more…

We humans are doing a bang-up job of messing up our home planet. But who’s to say we can’t go on to screw things up…

Stephen Hawking is at it again, saying it’s a “near certainty” that a self-inflicted disaster will befall humanity…

Kolontár’s wounds are deep. Five years ago, on October 4, 2010, roughly one million cubic meters of liquid chemical…

As we head deeper into the 21st century, we're starting to catch a glimpse of the fantastic technological…

Scifi author and futurist David Brin has penned a fascinating piece for Bloomerg in which he argues that the…

A Russian Proton-M rocket lost its navigation control on Monday, lurching and swerving until it finally turned…

With workers racing to build emergency dams in an effort to prevent a second catastrophe, new satellite imagery from…