Japanese complaints about military exercises near Taiwan have been followed by trade restrictions from ChinaImage: ...

SWOT was never designed to track disasters. Launched in December 2022 as a joint mission between NASA and France’s Centre ...

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Beyond the rare observation itself, the data raised deeper scientific questions. Large tsunamis are traditionally classified ...

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world’s largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...

The 2025 tsunami is shattering old models, thanks to observations from space. On July 29, 2025, the world’s sixth biggest ...

When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were ...

Multiple earthquakes struck western Japan on Tuesday, local time, centered in Shimane Prefecture and neighboring Tottori ...

In this age of megastorms, visionary designers around the world are taking clever advantage of the chance to rethink what they rebuild. Here’s how the smartest places are finding surprising ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Niigata Prefecture approved on Monday to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant located in the prefecture, more than a decade after the Fukushima disaster. The prefectural ...

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for ...

Disabled since the Fukushima disaster, local authorities gave the go-ahead for the restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa. Voting took ...