The worst airline disaster on American soil took place in May 1979 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. American Airlines Flight…
The remote town of Armero lay on the banks of the Langunilla River below Nevado del Ruiz, a volcanic peak…
The Cascades Range, a remote region of the northern Rockies, is a place of mountains, rivers, forests and wildlife. Volcanic…
The Vrancea area lies in the southeastern ‘corner’ of the U-shaped Carpathian range which, with its beautiful Alpine pastures and…
For China, 1976 was a year of political upheaval and power struggles. For Tangshan, an industrial city of over a…
Tropical storm Nina reached typhoon intensity on August 2 1975. It battered the central mountains of Taiwan, made landfall over…
For the people of Darwin, Christmas 1974 brought neither peace nor merrymaking. Just after midnight on Christmas Eve Cyclone Tracy…
Fifi was designated a hurricane after it passed through Jamaica as a tropical storm and then reached maximum intensity when…
There had been a four-year drought in Iran, which came to a spectacular end in February 1972 not with long-awaited…
The most devastating tropical cyclone, ever, struck in November 1970 - the sixth cyclonic storm in that year’s North Indian…