Japan marked two years since the Tōhoku earthquake on Monday, the 9.0 magnitude quake that triggered a deadly tsunami and caused the Fukushima nuclea...

The Huffington Post pictures of the day brings you the very best images from around the world chosen by our own photo editors, Elliot Wagland, Matthew...

The earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan on 11 March 2011 was the most devastating natural disaster to hit the country, costing more than 16,000 l...

If you weren’t already unnerved enough by the existence of raw horse meat and spaghetti cheese ice cream, there’s a new scary sweet in town. A...

Japan is switching on its nuclear power production today in the face of large-scale protests involving thousands of people. In the wake of the Fuku...

Last year's earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan caused vast amounts of damage to the country, took lives and ruined towns and cities across the...

Earthquakes, tsunamis and floods pushed Lloyd's of London to a £516 million loss in 2011 as catastrophe claims hit a record high for the 324-year-old...

A Japanese fishing vessel swept away in the tsunami has been photographed bobbing off the coast of Canada. The rusted and battered ‘ghost ship...

The last few days I have spent scouring the tsunami-devastated coastline of Japan's north-east. From Ishinomaki to Onagawa, Shichigahama to Kesennuma, the landscape has been drastically altered as Japan presses on with the world's costliest disaster recovery till date.

In the 12 months since the Fukushima meltdown, the once-accepted maxim that nuclear energy is the safest and most reliable form of energy production h...

Last year’s 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan was the fourth largest since 1900. The Tohoku-Oki struck on March 11, triggering a tsunami which k...

As Japan approaches its first anniversary since the devastating tsunami, the country’s clean-up effort has been making striking progress. In thi...

Governments and businesses are unprepared for "high impact, low probability" (HILP) events, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, acco...

No foresight could have predicted such a consequential and momentous year. At the time of writing this, it is review galore for journalists and the public alike with a myriad of comparisons being made between 2011 and other significant years in history.

A Tsunami in Japan, an earthquake in New Zealand, hurricanes in the Untied States a landslide in Brazil and cyclones in Australia - 2011 was a year na...

Yoshihiko Noda has become Japan's seventh prime minister in six years, inheriting a parliament racked by division, a sluggish economy and a nation str...

They are out there, always, often the first people to reach. You have seen them feed malnourished children and starving people in the Horn of Africa.