Scientists will outline dramatic evidence this week that suggests a comet exploded over the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, creating a hail of fireballs that set fire to most of the northern hemisphere. Primitive Stone Age cultures were destroyed and populations of mammoths and other large land animals, such as the mastodon, were wiped out.
Sen. Mary Landrieu D-La., chairwoman of the Disaster Recovery Subcommittee, plans to hold hearings this summer to determine where the disaster relief system broke down and what the best course for the future will be.
As many as nine foreign peacekeepers, including up to eight French soldiers, were killed Sunday when a French plane attached to the Sinai's multinational peacekeeping force crashed in a remote, mountainous area of the desert, the force's spokesman said.
When Deborah Rodriguez, a Michigan mother of two, visited Afghanistan in 2001 as a part of a disaster-relief tour arranged by a Christian humanitarian group, she wondered what she had to offer the citizens of a country who had weathered five long years of Taliban control.
The United Nations, in partnership with UK developer Playerthree, have announced Stop Disaster Game, a new web-playable game aimed at teaching children how to 'respond to and mitigate disasters.'
Video taken of the city of Prypiat. The city was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster.
A powerful earthquake in northeastern Indonesia triggered a tsunami warning Tuesday and caused panicked residents to flee shaking buildings, officials and media reports said. The U.S. Geological Survey initially put the temblor's magnitude at 6.9, but later revised it to 6.5.
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The five men and two women - including the first teacher in space - were just over a minute into their flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida when the Challenger blew up.
Hundreds of people hunkered down in emergency shelters and thousands stuck it out in darkened homes after a winter storm that left 54 dead in nine states.
Friday the 13th of April 2029 could be a very unlucky day for planet Earth. At 4:36 am Greenwich Mean Time, a 25-million-ton, 820-ft.-wide asteroid called 99942 Apophis will slice across the orbit of the moon and barrel toward Earth at more than 28,000 mph. The huge pockmarked rock, two-thirds the size of Devils Tower in Wyoming, will pack the ener
"This was my worst birthday EVER and thanks to my immmature brother its caught on tape!!! But it's NOT my fault."
Nearly a Nuclear Disaster on I-95 in NC

The length to which the powers that be have gone to cover up this story are amazing.
At least 110 people were killed after Typhoon Saomai, the most powerful storm to hit China in five decades, slammed into the southeast coast Thursday, resulting in the evacuation of more than 1.3 million people, state media reported.
As the 2006 hurricane season approaches, here's what you need to do now to protect your home and finances.






