Inside the world's most debauched seaside city sunk by a massive 7.5 earthquake

Port Royal was notorious for its flashy displays of wealth and status as a place with loose morals — there's no wonder it was known by people as "the most wicked and sinful city in the world". Read More

Inside the world's biggest underground chapel where everything is made of salt

New photos give a glimpse inside the world's biggest underground chapel - where everything is made of salt. Nine miles outside Krakow, Poland, is the town of Wieliczka with a population of just ... Read More

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Images of a saturated desert metropolis startled the world, prompting talk of cloud seeding ... is leading a rapid transformation of the long-struggling city. Her movies try to explain why ... Read More

More people are evacuated after the dramatic eruption of an Indonesian volcano

MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — More people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island were evacuated on Friday due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and ... Read More

Inside the world's fastest sinking city home to 33 million people

The powers that be have known for years that the city is slowly being gobbled up by the ground, but little in the way of risk management has been deployed. It is as such the world's fastest ... Read More

What do more quakes at one of California's riskiest volcanoes mean? Scientists think they know

One of California's riskiest volcanoes has ... assessment is not a list of which volcanoes are most likely to erupt or a ranking of those that are most active; rather, it's defined as a ... Read More

A Look Inside One of Earth’s Most Dramatic Volcanoes

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes. Only the U.S. (168) and Russia (144) have more. Essential packing list: We landed ... Read More

Inside the £8,000,000,000 futuristic city for just 2,000 people

Ambitious plans to build a utopian sustainable city at the foot of an active Japanese volcano are well on their ... under construction around the world. Marketed as a ‘mass human experiment ... Read More

The world's hottest city has become 'unliveable' with highs of 52C - even the streets have air-con

Heatwaves felt in Europe during the summer months are nothing compared to the searing conditions of one Middle-Eastern city - considered ... the third highest in the world. Gauges breached 50C ... Read More

Water World, city of Denver among those starting to hire or refer people for summer jobs

Candidates need to provide proof of age and citizenship and then the city will help match young people with job opportunities. For more information on these jobs, contact Water World or the City ... Read More

What are volcanoes?

I’ve been asked by my fellow explorers to get some rock samples from Mount Vesuvius, but it’s an active volcano, so I’ll need to watch out for things like lava flow. Lava is very hot molten ... Read More

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By Erika Solomon Hundreds of earthquakes were detected in the weeks preceding the eruption of the volcano in North Sulawesi ... of the long-struggling city. Her movies try to explain why Japan ... Read More