An underwater volcano erupted off Japan's coast three weeks ago, giving birth to a new island. The unnamed undersea volcano, located about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) south of mainland Japan and a ...

Japan is turning to the ocean in a bid to augment its renewable energy production using a 330-ton turbine that harnesses the power of deep-sea currents. Called “Kairyu,” the plan is to build a ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Japan is home to 10% of the world’s active volcanoes. But most of the volcanoes aren’t visible from the surface of Earth. Japan’s Fukutoku-Okanoba volcano is an underwater ...

Diving off the coast of Japan, scuba divers spotted an underwater light show. The small blue-purple lights seemed to pulse through the surrounding dark water. When scientists took a closer look at the ...

The biggest underwater volcanic eruption Japan has seen since the end of WWII has left shores covered in pumice stone. In one video, stones are seen covering the waves, while images show fishing ports ...

Off the coast of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, beneath rolling blue waves and coral gardens, rests something that shouldn’t really be there, or at least, no one can quite agree on what it is. As reported by ...

Nov. 5 (UPI) --Large underwater drones may roam the East China Sea if Japanese plans to deter Chinese vessels near the Senkaku Islands are ratified by Japan's Cabinet. Tokyo wants to introduce ...

Hidden beneath the waters surrounding Japan’s Yonaguni island are the towering ruins of a 10,000-year-old city built by a lost civilisation. That is, at least, what many experts think. The ...

Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took ...

Underwater robots equipped with imaging sensors that can see through murky waters are at work inspecting bridges, docks, and pipelines in port areas of the earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged coastline of ...