One of the less-noticed effects of tsunamis, for humans at least, is the way they can carry species into unfamiliar territory ...

How are species boundaries maintained in the face of environmental disturbance? This is not only a fundamental question in ...

In light of the recent tsunami and earthquake news – re: the 8.8-magnitude tremor that struck off the Russian coast, sending tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean – the threat of tectonic shifts ...

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake, estimated at 8.9–9.0 on the Richter scale, rocked Japan. The quake, whose epicenter was the Oshikah Peninsula, triggered a 10-meter tsunami, which wiped out whole ...

Zuigan-ji Temple in Matsushima, one of the sites damaged in the 2011 tsunami (image via wikipedia.org) Beyond a rising death toll of over 10,800, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in northern ...

Japan has issued a tsunami advisory after an earthquake near its outlying islands. Officials say a potential tsunami could ...