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Iceland volcanoes, Nepal earthquake of 2015, Epidemics, Fire in Tianjin 2015, Hurricane Katrina, Tsunami 2004, Sinkholes, Fukushima power plant accident, Bhopal gas Accident, Exxon Valdez oil spill, Traffic disasters.

Kyoto protocol, pollution on land, in the sea and in the air, deforestation and all their causes.

Santiago de Compostella rail disaster, Pakistan road disaster, road safety in developing countries, Queen of the sea – rail disaster in Sri Lanka, Autostrada del Sole car crash, London’s rail tragedy in fog, bus crashes in Mexico, Amtrak rail accident.

Malaysia Flights MH17 and MH370, Flight 447 – France to Rio,Germanwings 9525, Disaster in Tenerife 1977, NASA Shuttles, Hercules 2015 in Medan Indonesia, Antonov 1997 in Russia, Concorde story.

Sewol ferry, Estonia ferry, Exxon Valdez oil spill, Titanic, Express Samina, Costa Concordia, a look into modern piracy.

Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters, Bhopal gas accident, Savar Plaza building collapse, BP oil spill.

Avalanches in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal. Landslides in Colombia and Nepal. Heatwaves in the US, Europe and India. The strange business of sinkholes, including one in Bosnia. A blizzard that strikes the so-called Holy City of Israel.

Flash floods in Brazil, the deluge that followed Hurricane Katrina and the overflow after Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2015, these are all to some extent natural phenomena.

A Nightclub fire on Rhode Island, New York. L'Innovation Department Store Fire in Brussels 1967. In almost every instance, the fire started or was inflamed because of negligence or ill-intent.

Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico, Donna in Bangadesh, Sandy on the Northeastern seaboard of the US. All terrible in their own way, even if they had such non-threatening sounding names.

What’s in a name? When the name is Ebola. Sars. Small pox. Cholera. Avian influenza, “bird flue”.

Earthquakes in Nepal, the massive earthquake in the Sichun Province of China, the tragedy of the 2004 earthquake in Haiti, this is nature at its most randomly destructive.

Earthquakes from around the world, beginning with Monserrat, and trouble in a tropical paradise. Eyjafjnallajokull, in Iceland. Indonesia, The Congo, Yellowstone Park.