Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

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A new study discovers ancient subterranean islands several meters taller than Mount Everest that are hotter than their ...

For 60 years the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) C-130H Hercules fleet has served New Zealand at home and around the world and now the mighty workhorses are about to take their final bow.

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The frozen continent has never been so desirable. But as other nations try to get in on the action, a race to the bottom ...

The family of a father-of-two who died of altitude sickness as he was climbing Mount Kilimanjaro during ... his tragic death "ripped our whole world apart". Gerrard Kennedy, 41, travelled to ...

Pakistani mountaineer Asad Ali Memon has successfully reached the summit of Mount Vinson, the tallest peak in Antarctica, achieving a significant milestone in his pursuit of the Seven Summits ...

Of the five major extinctions in the planet’s history (leaving out the current mass extinction for now), four of them were caused in large part by ... such as Mount Erebus, are stunningly ...

JAKARTA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Authorities have begun evacuating 3,000 residents near the Mount Ibu volcano on Indonesia's eastern island of Halmahera, the disaster agency said on Thursday ...