Natural disasters vary widely across the United States depending on geography and climate. Some regions regularly experience hurricanes or wildfires, while others face blizzards, floods, tornadoes, or ...

In 1988, Piper Alpha became the scene of the worst offshore oil disaster in history when a chain of explosions turned the giant North Sea platform into a collapsing firestorm. Helicopter footage ...

Every century has a few events so destructive that they leave people standing directly in the path of whatever the earth or sea delivers. Some made it out. Many didn’t. From cyclones to floods and ...