January 7, 1945 - #2 American ace Major Thomas McGuire (right) crashes on Negros Island. A student at Georgia Tech, McGuire left school after his junior year to join the US Army Air Corps in 1941. Completing flight school, he flew his first combat missions over Alaska and...

Earth hazards never fail to surprise people who are determined to ignore them. Case in point: Portland, Oregon, where high rainfall and abundant sediment mean a landscape prone to mudflows, rockfalls, and the rest of the wide variety of landslides. In the community of Lake Oswego, landslides damaged several homes...

In the early years of the Spanish conquest, settlers, conquistadors, bureaucrats and mercenaries all flocked to the Caribbean, looking to make a quick fortune in gold or slaves. The natives of the islands of the Caribbean were massacred, captured, enslaved and sold, in addition to the thousands which died from...