The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

ODAKA, Japan >> Every year when winter finally loosens its grip on northern Japan, Tomoko Kobayashi begins what has become an annual rite for her and a small band of collaborators. They head out with ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 12 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of February 14.

As we were en route in the open ocean ... in the Indo-Pacific. The complexity of the security environment continues to grow. The capabilities of both our forces, Japan and the United States ...

Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem USS Nimitz: Eastern Pacific Ocean The Nimitz conducted what the U.S. Navy called "routine training operations" on Thursday in the Third Fleet's area of operations ...

Climatologists monitor several indices, some ocean-based and some atmospheric, to provide a quick indication of the state of certain climate variables and climate indicators. To monitor the Pacific ...

Forty percent of the workforce at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant worry about radiation issues on the job, a nearly three-fold spike over the previous year, a survey found. More than ...

There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million ...

Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster ... Fackler Photographs and Video by Noriko Hayashi Reporting from Odaka, Japan Every year when winter finally loosens its grip on northern Japan ...

A strange radioactive 'blip' has been detected deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. Analyzing several thin layers of seafloor ...