Fifteen years ago, on 11 March 2011, four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan were destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that still impacts the world today.

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the ...

A tense return to the disaster foregrounds the heroism of the ‘Fukushima 50’ while raising questions about corporate secrecy and nuclear safety ...

The earthquake and resulting tsunami decimated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant along the coast. The massive ecological ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...

Domestic pig genes got diluted across generations, but their rapid reproductive capacity persisted in hybrid hogs ...

*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 ...

After the infamous 2011 explosion of three reactors in Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Fukushima, the government shut down all nuclear operations. For fifteen years, Japan banished nuclear power, ...

More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced a mass evacuation, the region remains a ghost town for humans. But when humans go away, wildlife comes right back in. Among the most ...

TOKYO (AP) — A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again Thursday due to a glitch that ...

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, ...

A fish festival is underway at Yoyogi Park in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. It features seafood from Fukushima, a prefecture hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.