Teachers and staff in low-lying schools along the Pacific Northwest coast face an unusual extra responsibility alongside ...

The North Beach School District Board of Directors unanimously passed a resolution at a special Wednesday evening meeting ...

As the threat of organised crime looms large over the Pacific, New Zealand is being warned that the region serves as both a cautionary tale and a direct source of risk.

It’s a daunting challenge with the highest possible stakes should an offshore earthquake unleash a wall of incoming seawater.

Landslides, earthquakes, and subduction faults could generate 1,000-foot mega-tsunamis, wiping coastal communities off the ...

A prediction by a Japanese manga artist has reignited fears of a natural disaster hitting the country this summer.

History has a way of repeating itself. But unlike science, built on general principles and testable theories about the ...

Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of climate change.

The resulting sea level rise will lead to significant flood risks for huge areas of land, making recovery even harder.

At the top of a 120-foot-high cliff in Tonga sits a humongous rock—and at more than 650 feet inland, it’s staggeringly out of place. Now, scientists have modeled how this massive boulder could have ...

A massive boulder named Maka Lahi was recently found about 650 feet from the edge of a cliff in Tonga, and researchers believe that it may have been deposited by a tsunami around 7,000 years ago.

The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the ...