Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological feature beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s devastating 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami became one of the deadliest natural ...

How are species boundaries maintained in the face of environmental disturbance? This is not only a fundamental question in evolutionary biology but also an increasingly important one as human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2011, Japan suffered one of the worst environmental disasters in modern history. A magnitude 9.0 struck under the Pacific Ocean ...

In light of the recent tsunami and earthquake news – re: the 8.8-magnitude tremor that struck off the Russian coast, sending tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean – the threat of tectonic shifts ...

In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Chinju no Mori Project has planted more than 680,000 trees along Japan’s coastline to mitigate the impact of tsunamis. The project took its ...