Twenty years ago, on Dec. 26, 2004, a tsunami arising in the Indian Ocean devastated areas of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, ...

It's never too late to find your life purpose. With the help of local authorities, the local senior citizen association arranged for people like Boonpeng In-kaew who's dedicated his life to ...

Marking 20 years since one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, National Geographic will premiere TSUNAMI: RACE AGAINST TIME, a four-part documentary series providing a 360-degree view ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... was a key ingredient in BP's "recipe for disaster," Bea says. Only a few of the 126 crew members on theDeepwater ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Drones were created as a tool of combat: Militaries use them to spy and even to assassinate. But as with so much military ...

Natural disasters are a fact of life. There's no controlling Mother Nature, and her wrath can, at times, be staggering. Last year, natural disasters—from droughts in Africa and Russia to ...

Saffir-Simpson from Homer Simpson? Find out if you're a force of nature or a tropical depression with this natural disasters quiz! Natural Disasters Quiz: Are You a Master of Disasters?

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. “Death to the living, Long life to the killers, Success to sailors’ wives, And greasy luck to ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... It was the worst disaster at sea in U.S. naval history. It was also perhaps the U.S. Navy’s most shameful debacle.

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... carefully building small-scale dioramas of disaster. Their goal, says Nix, is to create and photograph “open ...

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...