University of Tokyo professor and risk communication expert Naoya Sekiya said the government has for years modeled scenarios ...

Scientists say a warning system could have given people on the Alaska Peninsula 10 seconds or more to brace themselves for July's M7.3 earthquake.

A magnitude 6 earthquake has struck off the northeast coast of Taiwan, shaking buildings in the capital, Taipei. The quake’s ...

Aboard the Chikyu — the world’s largest scientific drilling ship — 60 scientists teamed up with experienced drillers to ...

The clip, shared on Instagram, shows the damage caused by years of paan and gutkha spitting on the bridge’s steel structures.

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The 12 On Your Side investigators are digging deeper after the U.S. Department of Energy confirms the discovery of four radioactive wasp nests at the Savannah River Site.

New Orleans and the Gulf Coast have rebuilt. But the questions Katrina raised in 2005 on climate, government and race persist ...

Hurricane Katrina is believed to have killed 1,392 people − the deadliest hurricane since the Okeechobee hurricane in 1928 − and to have caused an estimated $200 billion in damage, when adjusted for i ...

Small island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Maldives and Marshall Islands are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Rising seas, stronger storms, freshwater shortages and damaged ...