UNESCO declared there is a 100 per cent chance of a tsunami of at least one metre high in the Mediterranean Sea in the next ...

Picture a space rock the size of a football pitch crashing into the North Sea's shallow seabed 43 to 46 million years ago.

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago.

Iran has effectively closed the narrow strait of Hormuz, a vital oil transit point, attacking more than a dozen ships over ...

A long running scientific dispute about the origin of the Silverpit Crater beneath the southern North Sea has now been settled.New research shows that ...

Cameroon after a natural disaster at Lake Nyos. This rare event changed not only our lives but also our understanding of the world.

Our most persistent crises are not natural. They are manufactured: kidnapping, insurgency, banditry, corruption, collapsing ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

History loves a good mystery. And honestly, few things are more unsettling than an entire civilization, with millions of ...

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