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Photograph by Mark Thiessen, National Geographic Before and after ... are classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as natural disasters, only 10 to 15 percent of wildfires occur on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The result, Wikelski hopes, will be a disaster-prediction network akin to an “internet of wings.” ...

They can be a life-threatening disaster—or a pricey nuisance ... a sinkhole opened up overnight and swallowed classic cars at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky.