Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors in recent weeks.The Japanese government on July 1 approved significant ...

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After the attack, crews sailed the USS "New Orleans" backwards for more than 1,000 miles across the Pacific. Since then, the ...

In 2013, when Sandra Altherr, co-founder of the German NGO Pro Wildlife, began looking into the reptile trade in Europe, she ...

In the jungles, plains and mountains of Luzon, the U.S. Army is experimenting with 3D-printed drones, missile launchers and ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

Where islands outnumber towns and coastlines fragment into thousands of pieces, here are the countries with the most islands.

The ongoing crisis in New Caledonia threatens to unravel more than three decades of French diplomatic engagement, as well as ...

In the forests of eastern Taiwan, a team of scientists set out to answer a question that has puzzled archaeologists for ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...