How did Europe’s tallest dam become one of history’s worst engineering disasters? This documentary investigates the Vajont Dam tragedy of 1963, where a landslide created a wave that killed nearly ...

A dam built to supply water and progress became the source of unimaginable tragedy when it suddenly collapsed. This documentary recounts how an engineering marvel turned into one of the deadliest ...

The scenes of devastation were horrendous when the skywalks of Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel came crashing down on the crowd below on July 17, 1981. Oversights in the construction of the two ...

Plane travel is statistically one of the safest modes of travel. But when things goes wrong, the results are often disastrous. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg An Air India plane crashed on Thursday, killing all ...

With this bat-inspired technology, the potential to locate more survivors the next time an earthquake or wildfire strikes ...

Inland remnants of tropical cyclones are notorious rainfall flood producers, as the recent tragedy in Texas in early July 2025 illustrated. But on Aug. 7, 1975, 50 years ago today, one of the world's ...

Just one episode into Deadliest Catch Season 21, Captain Jake Anderson is already facing a myriad of problems. A failing ship, a dangerous ammonia leak, and a full-blown rescue mission in the remote ...

Amid a wave of deadly plane crashes making headlines in 2025—including the recent Air India crash that left hundreds dead—many are reflecting on the long history of aviation disasters, especially ...

Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than 10 miles of the atmosphere. So when you think about it, every day that life ...

Flash floods are Colorado's deadliest natural disaster, exceeding fatalities from all other natural disasters combined. Colorado's flash flood season coincides with the monsoon season, typically from ...