Japan's declining population in agricultural regions could be having a damaging impact on biodiversity—a trend that could ...

Indonesia, with over 17,000 islands, is among the countries most vulnerable to rising sea levels, storms, flooding and ...

Foreign investors are invited for Indonesia's plan to build a $80 billion seawall hundreds of kilometres long to prevent ...

Dozens of coastal regions around the world, including Jakarta, Lagos and Tianjin are sinking at an alarming rate.

Increasing interplay among extreme events and land subsidence impacts calls for urgent mitigation and policy action to reduce detrimental ramifications to infrastructure and people.

Japanese officials say an explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern ...

According to a press release from the Royal Government Spokesperson Unit on June 7, the negotiations took place from June 4 - ...

When an earthquake strikes, most of us imagine shaking buildings, cracked roads, and frightened people running for safety.

Ground subsidence in Gifu Prefecture was likely caused by tunnel construction work for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line, Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) said. In the ...

Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joseph Helms On May 13, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) announced it will conduct a joint exercise with the South Korean Marine Corps in the ...

Photo by Allan Swart / Getty Images Dura said ... Unlike smaller, localized faults, Cascadia events can trigger widespread land subsidence, powerful tsunamis and long-lasting infrastructure ...

My 106 students knew about ground shaking as almost ... working in Chile and Japan. Each earthquake is unique, and the areas of uplift and subsidence depend on the size of the earthquake, the ...