On the sombre twentieth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, a disaster that claimed over 230,000 lives across 14 nations ...

Two people were rescued after a section of the Santa Cruz pier under construction partially collapsed and fell into the ocean ...

Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...

LIMA - Peru’s government on Dec 26 declared an environmental emergency in a northern coastal area, where state oil firm ...

Peru's government on Thursday declared an environmental emergency in a northern coastal area, where state oil firm Petroperu last weekend spilled a crude oil shipment into surrounding ...

An Alaska seabird species faced the worst mortality event in modern history, and the population isn’t rebounding, a study ...

The National Weather Service issued high surf advisories Thursday morning for Northern California, with 20-to-30-foot waves expected through Sunday.

Climate change and mass pollution is the new pandemic threatening environmental sustainability. A plastic island twice the ...

Boxing Day, marks the 20th year since one of the world's most significant natural disasters, the Sumatra earthquake.

If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, you may have ...

By MARTHA MENDOZA and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A major storm pounded California’s central coast ...

Survivors and victims’ relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, ...