Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-class artisans are struggling to keep lacquer ...

China has initiated construction of a new natural resource development structure in the East China Sea between China and Japan, the Japanese foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday, adding it ...

Japan and the Philippines signed a defense pact on Thursday that would allow the tax-free provision of ammunition, fuel, food and other necessities when their forces stage joint training to boost ...

An ailing astronaut is back on Earth. The crew of four returned Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a ...

A dog escaped from a rest stop along the New Jersey Turnpike and wandered for about 25 miles before she was found safe with ...

At the northwestern edge of Suriname’s capital, Paramaribo, the Atlantic Ocean relentlessly batters the shoreline. Here lies Weg naar Zee – literally “Road to the Sea” – long regarded as one of the ...

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. Bathtubs and ...

Belgium is trialing “dune-by-dike” systems as a nature-based defense against storm surges and sea-level rise, using engineered sand dunes in front of existing dikes to create a double buffer along ...

(CNN) — Bathtubs and pools mislead us about the ocean: Its surface is anything but flat. Seas pile up in some spots, pushed by trade winds or pulled by gravity toward big things like ice sheets. Amid ...