Residents scrambled to higher ground or to evacuate coastal towns early Thursday morning after a massive magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck.
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Tokyo Olympics brace for Tropical Storm Nepartak, preemptively shift rowing schedule
Tropical Storm Nepartak, which formed Friday night over the western Pacific Ocean, may arrive at the shores of mainland Japan by Tuesday.
Jewish artifacts taken by Nazis in Holocaust seized at New York auction house, feds say
Jewish artifacts once taken by Nazis during World War II have been found and seized, according to the Department of Justice.
‘Trash parrots’ learn to dumpster dive by watching other ‘trash parrots’ in Australia, study says
A video of a sulphur-crested cockatoo in Sydney opening a closed garbage bin is just the beginning of a “complex foraging culture,” researchers say.
Drones are zapping clouds with electricity to create rain in United Arab Emirates project
The United Arab Emirates is creating enhanced rain through cloud seeding, a method of artificially encouraging clouds to produce rain.
Lightning strike? Vandalism? Ohio mayor says ‘we may never know’ what destroyed George Floyd mural
Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz said the city will work with Toledo’s arts commission and the artist to replace the mural.
‘Small miracle’: Binx the cat, furry survivor of Florida condo collapse, reunited with family
A volunteer who had been feeding cats near the site found the black cat wandering the area before bringing him to a Miami Beach rescue center.
This Australian mouse was declared extinct. It turns out, the species has been surviving on an island.
Gould’s mouse, thought to have been wiped out more than 150 years ago, has been found by researchers on an island off Western Australia.
Florida condo collapse death toll rises to 86 as crews work ‘to bring closure to families still waiting’
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava on Saturday said more bodies were found.
Thousands protest in Spain after man killed in suspected homophobic attack; 3 suspects arrested
Three people have been arrested after Samuel Luiz, a 24-year-old man, was beaten to death in northwestern Spain during Pride weekend.