Leaders of six Coral Triangle countries promised to take action to safeguard the world’s richest marine resource and some 100 million people depending on it.
A Filipino scientist studying how to harvest shrimp in mangroves sustainably has been honored as one of Time Magazines "Heroes of the Environment 2008"
Researchers fresh from an eight-week scientific drilling expedition off the Pacific coast of Japan today reported their discovery of strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region notorious...
The Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) gets underway September 21, with the Japanese drilling vessel Chikyu departing from Shingu Port with scientists aboard, all ready to log,...
An unprecedented effort to map the ocean depths just off California's shoreline has turned up hidden reefs, canyons and shipwrecks - and one explanation for why the Mavericks surf spot has such...
The seismically active Indonesian island of Sumatra has been hit repeatedly by tsunamis in the past -- and may now be due for another
Research into ancient earthquakes by scientists at USC and...