Before a storm hits or the ground begins to shake, some animals seem to know what’s coming. Their early reactions have ...

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make such a devastating tsunami.

Imagine a 1,000-foot wall of water racing toward the U.S. It sounds like science fiction. But in 1958, a mega-tsunami in ...

Nature issues warning signals long before disaster strikes, and scientists track many of these patterns in weather and ...

Picture a towering 1,000-foot surge of water barreling towards the United States. It may seem like something out of a sci-fi ...

You’ve heard about Washington’s earthquake risk, but you might not realize Washington is also at risk for a major tsunami. It could come with little warning, but you can protect yourself by being prep ...

The sea, however, stubbornly keeps rising, and this island too meets the same fate. This is what has been happening to the islands of the Sundarbans: the largest mangrove forest in the world and a ...

A top arms diplomat at the State Department recently laid out what might come next as Washington upends decades of federal policies on nuclear proliferation.

"The ocean surface is definitely not flat. It is constantly changing as wind, waves and swells produce surface undulations, daily tidal fluctuations raise and lower the average height." ...

Forget the bullet train, this is the rail journey you need to take.

My remarkable mother, who for years supervised Pacific Northwest Bell’s Aberdeen business office, seemed to know everyone who was anyone in town — the mayor, police chief and city clerk — as well as ...

has been hunting sharks off the southern coast of India for 37 years. He spoke to Bharath Thampi in Malayalam.