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GUANGZHOU -- South China's coastal regions, including Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi have been placed on high alert as Typhoon Wipha, the sixth typhoon of the year, made landfall near Jiangmen city in ...

In early July, Taiwan’s online whale-watching community was issuing surprise updates about whale sightings every few days.

A local hub for climate research is facing an uncertain future. As HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote reports, time is ticking for ...

A powerful 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka coast, triggering tsunami warnings and evacuation orders across ...

A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings across ...

The earthquake off Russia's northeastern Kamchatka peninsula on Wednesday triggered tsunami warnings in Japan, Hawaii, the US ...

When people outside official evacuation zones flee on their own, this is known as a shadow evacuation. It often happens when ...

On a hot October afternoon near the largest oil and gas port in the Philippines, the roar of a nearby natural gas tanker ...

A UC San Diego Ph.D. student discovered rare purple Janthina sea snails washing up on the La Jolla beach, a phenomenon linked to warmer offshore waters not seen in San Diego since 2015.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has used his annual state of the nation speech to declare that the country had become more confident and better prepared to defend its sovereignty.

No similar breakthrough is expected in the U.S.-China talks but trade analysts said that another 90-day extension of a tariff and export control truce struck in mid-May was likely. An extension of ...