Thousands of people evacuated from parts of northern Japan as the country's largest wildfire in three decades raged unabated ...

Recent appearances of the rare oarfish near Baja California Sur, Mexico have ignited discussions on social media. Often ...

The tallest volcano in Europe, Italy's Mount Etna, and the world's most active volcano, Kilauea in Hawaii, erupting again.

Three key donors - China, Japan and South Korea - reaffirmed their commitment to continuing emergency rice supply to ...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged Japan to speed up key cooperative projects with Vietnam, including the launching of ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami forever changed ... Yet, he now realizes that the natural disasters also led to new ties with volunteers who came to the Tohoku region and that those ...

Scientists know that natural disasters have negative health effects on survivors, but long-term observations are lacking. To help fill this gap, a research team has investigated the connection between ...

Navigating earthquakes is a tricky part of living in Japan. In the average year, Japanese people are shaken around 1,500 ...

Japan is increasingly adopting information technology to help those in need of assistance in times of disasters, such as the elderly and people with disabilities. Under such initiatives ...

Since then, the country has updated its homes further, making recovery from natural disasters less expensive. Strict building regulations have been implemented in Japan's metropolitan areas to ...