The coils of black hose, drum skimmers designed to collect oil from the ocean's surface, and orangey-red containment booms all looked out of place on the white sand of Mombasa's touristy Nyali beach.

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. No deaths have been reported from tsunami waves in ...

Tanzania's weather authorities on Monday issued a warning for periods of strong winds exceeding 40 kilometers per hour. [File, Standard] Tanzania's weather authorities on Monday issued a warning for ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

December 26 marked 20 years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, leaving death and destruction in its wake on a vast scale in country after country. Officially, an estimated 227,000 ...

Heat waves are reaching the bottoms of Earth's oceans, and that could be a big problem for the creatures that live there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A Hawaiian surfer has died after suffering a fatal injury while riding waves off the west coast of Indonesia. Mikala Jones, who was 44, was surfing off the Mentawai Islands in the Indian Ocean. It has ...