Science & Nature
Environment
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App links volunteers, helps keep Japan neighborhoods clean
Social media is helping Japan’s urban neighborhoods stay spick and span. Prior to the novel coronavi...
October 8, 2022
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Plastic waste covers Central American rivers, lakes
POTONICO, El Salvador (AFP-Jiji) — A blanket of multi-colored plastic waste flowing in from tributar...
October 3, 2022
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EV car-sharing programs expanding in municipalities
An increasing number of municipalities are teaming up with car-sharing service operators to use elec...
October 2, 2022
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Garbage-opening cockatoos enter ‘arms race’ with humans
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Australia’s crafty, sulphur-crested cockatoos appear to have entered an “innovat...
September 25, 2022
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Zoos move to reduce stress for animals in their care
Zoos and aquariums nationwide are increasingly reexamining how they should exhibit animals in their ...
September 18, 2022
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Local festivals work to decarbonize
With local festivals often emitting large amounts of greenhouse gas in the process of selling food a...
September 17, 2022
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Black Sea dolphins casualties of Russia’s invasion, military sonar
PRYMORSKE, Ukraine (AFP-Jiji) — Pacing up and down a beach of fine white sand on the Black Sea coast...
September 8, 2022
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Tourists return but Easter Islanders draw lessons from COVID isolation
HANGA ROA, Easter Island (AFP-Jiji) — During more than two years of the coronavirus pandemic, Easter...
September 1, 2022
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Great Barrier Reef sees fragile coral comeback
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Parts of Australia’s beleaguered Great Barrier Reef now have the highest levels ...
August 31, 2022
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Japan to compile new list of 100 important waters in Reiwa era
The Environment Ministry is to newly compile an index of the nation’s 100 best springs, rivers and o...
August 29, 2022
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Study: Invasive frog, snake cost world economy $16 bil.
MIAMI (Reuters) — Two invasive species, the American bullfrog and the brown tree snake, cost the wor...
August 26, 2022
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Okinawa corals suffer bleaching
Coral bleaching was recently confirmed off Iriomote and Ishigaki islands in the Yaeyama Islands of O...
August 23, 2022
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‘Totoro’s forests’ threatened by oak wilt disease
A contagious disease known as oak wilt is spreading in oak forests on the Sayama Hills that straddle...
August 23, 2022
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Florida town hurries to eradicate fast-spreading snail
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AFP-Jiji) — It might not be speedy, but it’s big, hungry and fast at reproduc...
August 13, 2022
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Venomous ‘jellyfish’ found on Tokushima beach
TOKUSHIMA — A dozen highly venomous “katsuo no eboshi” (Portuguese men-of-war), a jellyfish-like spe...
August 2, 2022
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