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Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tonnes ...

From late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...

Solar and wind energy don't work all the time. A pilot project in LA is testing if constant ocean waves can fill the sustainable energy gap.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there's “no tsunami threat to Guam/CNMI” from the nearby quake. Residents reported feeling the earthquake. USGS said the quake was located about 8 miles ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

The Trump administration has told the federal government’s ocean and atmosphere scientists to stop their international work.

Daryono, Director of Earthquake and Tsunami at the BMKG, explained that the earthquake was shallow. It occurred because of the movement of rocks where the Indo-Australian Plate slides beneath Sumatra.

Scientists on a submersible in the Pacific Ocean found a 1-foot-long sea creature with 24 “feet” and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Several miles below the ...

A team of scientists in Switzerland have discovered “mysterious spots”, which they dubbed as a “sunken world”, deep in the bosom of the Pacific Ocean. According to the scientists ...