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 ...

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...

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The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has officially surfed the 100-foot wave yet, that threshold is soon to be ...

The Indian Ocean region is undergoing a profound geopolitical transformation. From a relatively peripheral theater, it has now transitioned into a site of intense strategic competition, expanding ...

A powerful tsunami swept across the Pacific, but what a passing satellite captured in its wake has stunned scientists and could rewrite everything we thought we knew about how these killer waves ...

On July 29, 2025, the world’s sixth biggest recorded earthquake struck Russia, triggering a tsunami whose waves reached as far as the U.S.’s West Coast. Data from an unexpected source—space—has shed ...

Almost 12 years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished over the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board, the search for the Boeing 777's wreckage was scheduled to resume Tuesday in the Indian Ocean ...

In the summer of 2025, a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. While that is not one of the five largest earthquakes ever recorded, that is still ...

This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in this tragic event, it is also a moment to reflect on what ...

Azzahra Layusa, survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, in Aceh, Indonesia. As we mark the 21st anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, UNDP and the Government of Japan share the stories of ...