Japan's exploration of the island of Minamitorishima for nuclear waste storage has raised global concerns over tsunami and flooding risks.

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Komodo dragons are some of the most powerful and intimidating reptiles on Earth, earning their reputation as the world’s ...

Meet the Humbert family, three generations of pearl farmers living on Ahe Atoll, one of the world’s most isolated places in the Pacific Ocean.

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One person has been taken into custody following an overnight incident on an isolated northern Lake Huron island, according to fire officials who were involved with the situation. The Bois Blanc Fire ...

Staten Island was slammed hardest of the five boroughs with some neighborhoods seeing nearly 30 inches of snow, causing public-school absentee rates there to skyrocket to a jaw-dropping 69.8% — more ...

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Sailor Pino Vojković is late for our rendezvous at the harbour of Komiža village. “I’ll be five minutes,” he promises, when I call. He arrives in 20. I can’t pretend I mind. It’s almost a decade since ...

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (WCBD) – Firefighters battled a house fire on a remote island near Johns Island twice in one day. Crews with St. John’s Fire District were called back out to the home off Hopkinson ...

JOHNS ISLAND — For local construction business magnate Tony Berenyi, his remote island home on a swath of land in the center of Bohicket Creek has been a pleasant respite from the hustle and bustle of ...

Researchers working across Island Nations in the South Pacific discovered that the plastics turning up in these fish were mostly fine fibers shed from textiles and fishing gear. Stacey Leasca is an ...