Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.
This video was the only video recovered after Columbia disintegrated during re-entry. It depicts the crew during their final preparations, before land...
Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the detective-story genre, left-behind a major mystery involving his own death. Was he the victim of cooping, an illeg...
Danzig, a city in German-controlled Prussia during WWII—and now, as Gdansk, part of Poland—was particularly damaged during the war.Hitler ...
As a pyroclastic flow races toward Pompeii, people in the town fear for their lives. Thousands of years later, when excavators begin to uncover what h...
By May 18, 2010, an expanding oil slick resulting from Deepwater Horizon's explosion, was just off the Mississippi Delta.
After an initial explosion which killed 11 of 126 workers aboard Deepwater Horizon, the oil rig had a second explosion on April 22, 2010.
Blair Manuel - from Gonzales, Louisiana - was 56 years old on the day Deepwater Horizon exploded.
In this photo, Dale Burkeen - victim of the Deepwater Horizon explosion - is with his son, Timothy, age 6.
Jason Anderson was the most senior of the eleven men who died in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
Roy Wyatt Kemp was scheduled to come home, for a time, the day after Deepwater Horizon exploded.
Shane Roshto, an employee of Transocean, was 22 years old on the 20th of April, 2010.
When we cut-down our trees, we do more than eliminate trees. We also harm, or eliminate, the habitat of other creatures who live in the forests.
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