Japan offered valuable lessons learned in disaster recovery efforts after last year's Maui wildfires, and also inspired hope ...

Tokyo touted the “reconstruction of the Tohoku region” from the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami disaster in March 2011 in its bid to host the 2020 Games. Although wary early on about ...

In March 2011 we watched the horrifying tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake consume seaside towns in Tohoku, Japan. It is one thing to watch the videos but it is quite another to read ...

On 22 November, 29 changemakers from 11 Pacific small island countries completed the second phase of the UNITAR "Leave No One Behind: Rapid Response ...

Indian tsunami survivors plead for relief supplies like food and water at a fishing hamlet in Nagapattinam on January 6, 2005.SCIENCEThe tsunami had a domino effect of devastation. In Sri Lanka, the ...

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...

Rachel and her husband Cici were enjoying a leisurely stroll through a beachside marketplace on a paradise island when the Boxing Day tsunami struck ... Cici was the only survivor around with ...

A strong earthquake has struck Japan’s north-central region of Noto that’s still recovering from a deadly quake early this ...

Twenty years ago, a catastrophic tsunami devastated communities across the Indian Ocean, resulting in the deaths of more than 220,000 people. Triggered by a massive earthquake off the west coast ...