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 ...

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 ...

Marking 20 years since one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, National Geographic will premiere TSUNAMI: RACE AGAINST TIME, a four-part documentary series providing a 360-degree view ...