Six bills that seek to prevent new solid waste landfills to be placed above fresh groundwater sources anywhere in Hawaii are ...

In the 20 years since the Indian Ocean calamity, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center started providing warning services to Indian Ocean countries. Scientists identified other high-risk zones around ...

The neighboring city of Talcahuano—among other affected areas—was also largely devastated, although it would suffer an even greater disaster decades later, in 2010, due to an 8.8 MW earthquake and ...

ENR editor Tom Sawyer traveled extensively to project sites, disaster areas and war zones ... for tsunami resilience for use in the states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii.

Emergency evacuation alerts have gone off the rails, pinging people seemingly at random. Experts say that such errors can sow ...

A large development in Haleiwa town is getting some pushback from residents and the neighborhood board. North Shore leaders said the project has been in discussion for several years and now the ...

Oregon scientists are hoping to help the coastal communities survive a major inundation in various ways. One of those is ...

A strong earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has rattled southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency ...

TOKYO -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological ...