googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); Each year, approximately 150 people are killed in avalanches. Although that number is relatively small, the prospect of such a tragedy weighs heavily on the minds of those working to keep people on hiking expeditions and ski trips happy and safe. Rescue missions to save adventurers trapped under snow, ice, and […]
Despite hundreds of years of research into how the Earth works, it still manages to surprise us fairly often. Sometimes these surprises are interesting and beneficial to life, other times though, they catch us off guard with devastating consequences. What recently happened in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz falls into the latter category. For […]
Once a bustling town in Thessaly, Greece, Ropoto is now a ghost town. What happened to this locale to make it so desolate? Well, in 2012, a landslide caused homes and buildings to cascade down the side of a hill, displacing 300 families in the process. The 12-minute documentary Ropoto: Greece’s Sinking Ghost Town details […]
Australia is a land of extremes. The continent is known for its deadly assortment of wildlife, but that’s not the only extreme thing about it. There’s also the weather. Recent floods in areas of Tasmania have caused unprecedented damage to residents’ homes and businesses. However, the extreme flooding has also caused wildlife — specifically spiders […]