On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake shook Japan, the most powerful earthquake in the island’s history. Communities on the coast were flattened by the tsunami that ensued minutes later, its crest ...

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami struck the coast of Japan, causing explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and devastating the region. Nearly 20,000 people were killed, and half ...

Sean T. Kelly has come up with an unusual venture to help a Sri Lankan village recover from the effects of last December's tsunami: designer birdhouses made from the catastrophe's debris. Kelly, a ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Genzyme Corporation (Nasdaq: GENZ) and Project HOPE, an international, nonprofit, health education and humanitarian assistance organization, announced today that they will ...

A Canberra engineer involved in a massive charity project to rebuild homes in tsunami devastated areas of Sri Lanka says the project is progressing well. Percy Samara-Wickrama is working with ...

SAN MATEO (KCBS) - A routine test of tsunami warning sirens along the San Mateo County coast conducted last week showed only three of eight sirens working properly, according to officials. The failure ...

Pakistan’s Ten Billion Tree Tsunami project has emerged as champion programme for ecological conservation at the 25th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Madrid, ...

The military has a long and honorable history, but part of that history includes some weapons' experiments that in hindsight seem downright wacky, and some even evil. Everything from a "gay bomb" that ...