Two residents from St. Martin island's two nations, the French St. Martin and the Dutch St. Maarten, describe Hurricane Irma’s destruction during a direrct hit to the island in September, 2017.

While their cameras bore witness, cinematographer Steve Holleran and his film crew were trapped as this particular fire “basically just blew up and split around us, and cut us off from being able to leave,” Holleran told The Atlantic. “We'd been told this was a safe zone. It all happened really fast

Scenes of devastation around Ishinomaki, Japan after it was hit by massive tsunami generated by magnitude 9.0 earthquake. Footage shot on 15th March 2011. So...

Buddy, engineered by Team Mojavaton, participated in the DARPA Robotics Challenge trials in December, 2013. The goal of the competition was to encourage the development of robots that can assist humans in natural and man-made disasters. Though Buddy experienced a mechanical malfunction during the tr...

In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now's the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from

What is billed as France's biggest and best festival of lights begins in earnest tonight. "La fete des lumieres" takes place each year in the south-eastern city of Lyon and this edition, the 13th, promises to be bigger than ever.To honour the victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan is the s...

Over the next four years, Saudi Arabia is set to spend a whopping $500 billion dollars to build a futuristic city, 17 times bigger than London and 33 times bigger than New York City. The goal is to build an innovation hub and tourist destination to lead the world in smart city technology and clean e