Profiles history's twelve worst earthquakes, documenting their location, lives lost, and legacy. Each profile includes images and statistics, and select entries include critical thinking questions. Includes tips on how to stay safe during an earthquake, a glossary, sources for further information, and an index.

Describes what a wildfire is, how firefighters fight them, how destructive they can be, and why they are sometimes good.

Collects seventy illustrated entries that offer techniques, strategies, and step-by-step instructions to survive mudslides, volcanoes, shark-infested waters, and other potentially perilous situations.

This title focuses on fires and gives information on what they are, how to prepare for them, and how to survive.

Much of the Earths rainforests, which once helped to slow the greenhouse effect by absorbing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, have been destroyed to make room for farmland. Global warming is spiraling out of control. A tipping point has been reached, and Earths climate has been irrevocably damaged. Many life forms are threatened. In fact, human beings are now officially an endangered species.

This title focuses on blizzards and gives information on what they are, how to prepare for them, and how to survive.

Examines what a storm chaser is and how they track, observe, and document deadly weather, especially tornadoes, and discusses how severe weather develops and safety precautions to take in such storms.

Discusses volcanic eruptions and the destruction they cause, describing disastrous volcanic eruptions throughout history and explaining what volcanoes are, how they form, and what it is like inside a volcano.

Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods: these colossal powers of nature have had dramatic consequences for humankind. But as massive as these forces are, the stories of heroism and tragedy are very personal. You'll meet heroes, fighting to save homes and lives, but see victims, too, suffering unspeakable tragedies. Join scientists as they study the elemental killers.