More than 1,000 people have been killed and entire villages wiped out in Afghanistan — all from a 6.0-magnitude earthquake. CBC seismologist Johanna Wagstaffe reports on why this ‘moderate’ quake turned catastrophic, and how geology, building codes and remote villages combined to make the disaster so deadly.
A rare bird’s mysterious journey seems to have taken it from New Guinea to the taxidermist’s table, then from somebody’s display case to a dumpster in northern Ontario, and […]
On Monday night, skywatchers were treated to a moderate display of the northern lights. For those who missed out, there’s still a chance they may […]
A landslide wiped out a village in Sudan ‘s western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters […]