December's tsunami clogged shipping lanes, rearranged coasts, and created new islands. Now geographers are helping redraw the region so relief can reach ports in need.
Two weeks after the tsunami swamped the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh, thousands of bodies still cover the area. Looters are picking through the debris, and survivors wait for medical help, photographer Chris Rainier reports.
At 12, Oscar Torres joined a guerrilla movement to fight in El Salvador's civil war. Torres has co-written a film based on his experience, which spotlights the plight of child soldiers.
When the December 26 tsunami struck Abdul Razzak's island in the Indian Ocean, he remembered what he had seen on National Geographic documentariesand helped save some 1,500 lives.
The great tsunami of 2004 was one of the worst disasters in history. Read our latest news stories and learn how tsunamis are generated, where they can strike, and what you can do to protect yourself.
Was Tutankhamun murdered? In an effort to solve that mystery and
others, scientists CT-scanned the 3,000-year-old mummy of the ancient
Egyptian king yesterday.
Shepherds on an island off Africa whistle to communicate across great distances. Their brains, a new study says, interpret the sounds just as if they were spoken words.
The earthquake that generated the great Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 is estimated to have released the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. Find out what happened and how it was unleashed on millions of unsuspecting people.
Famous for their haggis and single-malt whiskies, Scots now have an appetite for deep-fried Mars bars and other bizarre, calorie-crammed foods, say worried public health experts.
Anthony Brandt continues his series on the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804. Christmastime two hundred years ago the Corps of Discovery was wintering in present-day North Dakota, in constant contact with Indians.