The photo is haunting. Among a number of figures gathered on a dock, the fuzzy image seems to be that of a woman, her back to the camera, gazing at what may be her crippled aircraft loaded on a barge, and perhaps wondering what ...
A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Guatemala's coast Thursday, injuring four people and damaging homes and roads, officials said, just eight days after another strong emblor killed five people in the Central American country. The quake struck at 6:31 a.m. (1231 GMT) with its epicenter ...
The government said Thursday that Japan has exceeded the annual limit on its catches of immature Pacific bluefin tuna, breaking an international commitment only two years after the regulation was introduced. The domestic catch of the threatened fish, a popular choice for sushi and other ...
Peruvians struggled on Sunday to cope with avalanches, mudslides and extensive flash flooding caused by torrential rainfall as forecasters predicted still more rain ahead, prolonging the country's woes. The death toll remained at 72, authorities said, but devastating damage reports continued to pour in. Prime Minister ...
Tropical Storm Madeline picked up speed as it headed toward Hawaii on Sunday, while Hurricane Lester tore west from the Mexican mainland across the Pacific, U.S. monitors reported. The center of Lester, a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 kph), ...
Scientists found most of the coral is dead in what had been one of the world's most lush and isolated tropical marine reserves. Researchers finishing an emergency undersea expedition Wednesday described what they called a graveyard of coral around Jarvis Island in the Pacific Remote ...
A Colombian mariner has been rescued after surviving a two-month ordeal in the Pacific by eating fish and seagulls, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The man told the Coast Guard that his three companions on the disabled 23-foot skiff died at sea, but their bodies ...
Former Japanese fishermen plan to seek compensation from the Japanese government for keeping undisclosed for decades records of their radiation exposure linked to a series of U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific, sources said Thursday. About 20 people, including relatives of deceased fishermen, are ...
Organizers of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race say a British competitor who died after being swept off a yacht has been buried at sea. The 12 teams held a minute's silence on their boats Sunday in memory of Sarah Young. Darren Ladd, skipper ...
A U.S. Navy tugboat that sank nearly a century ago has been found by a team of government researchers off the San Francisco coast, officials announced Wednesday. The USS Conestoga departed San Francisco Bay for Pearl Harbor in March 1921. But the boat never made ...
Over 12,000 aftershocks have occurred in the coastal areas of eastern Japan since a powerful earthquake struck the region in March 2011, the Meteorological Agency said Tuesday. Quakes that are considered aftershocks of the magnitude-9.0 temblor are happening less often, but their frequency is still ...
The first stage of a SpaceX rocket that delivered a U.S.-European ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit Sunday made a hard landing on a floating barge in the Pacific and broke a support leg. SpaceX announcers said the Falcon 9 was not upright after reaching the 300-by-170 ...
