Fifteen years on from its worst-ever nuclear accident, Japan is welcoming nuclear power back into its energy mix. Senior Fellows Daniel B. Poneman and Clara Gillispie discuss Fukushima’s legacy and ...

Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare is a harrowing and tense chronicling of a massive disaster, but there's something else I'm ...

There are two big challenges when it comes to tsunamis: first making sure people in the tsunami zone are notified and know ...

"This mechanism likely occurs in other regions worldwide." Researchers issue warning about 'nuclear' hogs rapidly reproducing in Japan first appeared on The Cool Down.

With disasters more intense and more frequent, there is less time to recover and mourn. See how new technology – and new approaches to the strain – aim to help.

Stories of past disasters help prevent complacency. When survivors recount their experiences and how events unfolded, they ...

For centuries, sailors told terrifying stories of glowing sea serpents rising from the depths — enormous silvery creatures ...

Critics say the fee rise is designed to keep 'poor' foreigners out, as Japan bets on AI and robots to plug its growing ...

The dissatisfaction with politics-as-usual stems from a long-brewing desire to break with Japan’s ‘lost decades’: the period of prolonged stagnation since the bursting of the asset bubble at the turn ...

From Bhopal to the draining of the Aral Sea, discover some of the worst man-made disasters that have occurred around the ...

In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and ...

A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shows a ...