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This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of ...

A local government in Japan voted Monday to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant, which has been closed since 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal ...

Farmers and fishermen hit by climate change are taking big corporate polluters to court -- and experts say these ...

Climate change is increasing the likelihood of massive hurricanes and typhoons in the western Pacific, North Atlantic, and Gulf regions. New research shows that the ocean conditions responsible for th ...

A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to ...

In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic ...

Rock League, the professional mixed curling team league first announced in April, has announced the full athlete rosters and ...

Japan is lifting a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck ...

Japan is lifting a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck ...