A remote seasonal salt lake on the edge of the Sahara leads a list of 15 new Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance being declared in the country on World Wetlands Day, February 2. Tunis, Tunisia ...

The Falkland Islands may at some point in the future face a major tsunami. Scientists have found evidence of ancient slope failures on the seafloor to the south of the British Overseas Territory.

The skull is thought to be about 6,000 years old An ancient human skull discovered in Papua New Guinea is likely to have belonged to the world's oldest-known tsunami victim, scientists say.

Without access to water supplies from typical sources such as flowing rivers. They were an urbanized society that established themselves in the desert, even though they had no natural security or ...

Around 250 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out more than 90% of life – and it all began in the water. You’re probably thinking it was a tsunami, a devastating natural disaster ...

A species of clam discovered in Funakoshi Bay, Iwate Prefecture, after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster was judged to have been 135 years old when it died, ranking it as among the oldest ...