“If climate change reduces vegetation cover, ecosystems may absorb less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which can further ...

Greater protections for endangered emperor penguins and how to manage growing tourism are topping the agenda at talks on Antarctica in Japan.

A decision made 70 years ago to reforest vast swathes of Japan with just two kinds of tree has come back to haunt the country.

The Tenpō Famine of the 1830s was one of the worst in Japanese history, with the poor weather causing escalating rice prices as a major cause. To better understand how historical weather anomalies ...

Scientists in Japan and Israel have provided insight on microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis following an outbreak in ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', ...

Japanese woman who scaled the world's 14 top peaks says she wants to share joy - Naoko Watanabe, the first woman to summit K2 ...

Factories have turned off cooling amid energy restrictions caused by the Mideast war, with workers sweltering and a drop in ...

Greater protections for Antarctica's emperor penguins, which could put restrictions on shipping and tourism, come under ...

The amount of sunlight, or solar radiation, that a location receives makes a big impact on weather conditions, crop success, rainfall and overall climate trends. Today, instruments called ...