In March 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that devastated Japan's northeast coast, killing 20,000 and wiping out towns. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was critically damaged, ...

Under the crippled reactors of Fukushima Daiichi, in spaces once assumed to be sterile and lifeless, scientists are finding communities of microbes and a wider web of wildlife that are not just ...

More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced a mass evacuation, the region remains a ghost town for humans.

*HBO Documentary Films has unveiled the official trailer for “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare,” a feature-length documentary examining the aftermath of Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster. The film is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. render of bacteria in biofilm In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to ...

It's an art exhibition you can't visit. Not yet, at least, until officials declare the Fukushima exclusion zone habitable again, which for certain areas could take decades. The exhibition, slated to ...

Communities are still rebuilding and healing from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster which wreaked havoc on the region. But prospects are looking brighter thanks to the efforts of the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court ruled Thursday ...

There is no risk on the West Coast from radiation released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster three years ago – and there never was. That’s the word from state scientists in California. They’ve ...

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 ...