Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
What is the legend of the thirteen crystal skulls (featured in the fourth Indiana Jones film)?
Celebrating 2000 Martian days of exploring the Red Planet, Curiosity is a moving science lab, considerably different from "Spirit" and "Opportunity" b...
Children who try to help their families by finding things to sell in abandoned mines - or just exploring them without supervision - face many hidden d...
As a pyroclastic flow races toward Pompeii, people in the town fear for their lives.
Although not the deadliest shipwreck, Titanic remains one of the most famous.
Although not the deadliest shipwreck, Titanic remains one of the most famous.
Deep-sea diving, in modern times, includes diving by means of remote submersibles like Alvin.
On the night of April 20, 2010, gas from a newly located oil find escaped from the wellhead (located at Mississippi Canyon 252), traveled up through t...
Eleven people died as a result of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and seventeen more were injured.
On April 21, 2010 - the day after the explosion - Deepwater Horizon was still burning.
On the 6th of December, 1992, a rushing crowd of activists completely destroyed the Babri Mosque in northern India.
Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) and its "slum" area (known as Dharavi) coexist.
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