Australian Natural Hazards: Australian Natural Hazards

The Geoscience Australia site looks at natural hazards including bushfires, cyclones, earthquakes, floods, landslides, tsunamis, volcanoes and severe weather conditions.

The National Geographic magazine website has excellent photographic representations of recent disasters as well as facts, text and video information. Topics include hurricanes, lightning, wildfires, avalanches, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, tsunamis, and volcanoes.

The Guardian newspaper's pages devoted to natural disasters and extreme weather conditions feature current news reports about the world's earthquakes, floods, fires and other weather events. With commentary on related blogs, videos and links to interactives on volcanoes and earthquakes, and features on the 2006 tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, this is a useful resource for the geography classroom.

The Global Education website provides information about natural disasters around the world: whether caused by climate (e.g. drought, flood, cyclone) and geology (e.g. earthquake, volcano, tidal wave, landslide, tsunami) or human impact on the environment (e.g. pollution, deforestation, desertification, pest infestation).