IT starts with a glimmer in the sky – just a pinprick of light, barely distinguishable from the stars. But this is no distant celestial body – this is a massive 2,560-foot-wide ...

A dramatic transformation is taking place in the South Pacific, where a newly formed volcanic island is emerging from the ...

Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes ...

After a series of earthquakes rocked California last week, a scientist has warned that the Golden State isn't the only area ...

In late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, raising concerns of an imminent volcanic eruption or tsunami.

Radioactive spike found in Pacific seabed samples. It could be from space radiation or changes in ocean currents 10 million ...

As crews work to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles wildfires, researchers and officials are trying to understand how the fires on land have i ...

A week ago, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Caribbean Sea. More than 44 million people live in the Caribbean region and population centers are vulnerable to strong shaking.

Three of plant’s six reactors were operating when a tsunami caused by a massive earthquake hit on ... after TEPCO began ...

the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Later, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that tsunami waves between 1 and 3 meters above tide level were possible along parts of ...

A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck north of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea, prompting tsunami warnings for the region. Listen to Story Earthquake of 7.5 magnitude hits north of Honduras Quake ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea Saturday night, north of Honduras and southwest of the Cayman Islands, briefly triggered tsunami alerts that were later lifted. The U.S ...