Environment

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Freshwater environments cover about 1% of Earth’s surface while accounting...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) — A heron took flight in Rio de Janeiro on Dec. 15, stretching its wings...

MILAN (AFP-Jiji) — Smokers in Italy’s financial and fashion capital of Milan risk being fined for...

LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Conservationists in the U.K. and Portugal hailed on Dec. 28 a breeding progra...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Disposal of used solar panels is expected to be a big problem in Japan in th...

GJIROKASTER, Albania (AFP-Jiji) — “Donkey milk has the taste of love,” said Fatiko Basha as she c...

SHIOGAMA, Miyagi (Jiji Press) — Efforts are spreading in Miyagi Prefecture to bring back seagrass...

SEATTLE (AP) — The world’s largest hornet, an invasive breed dubbed the “murder hornet” for its d...

Japan will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% from the fiscal 2013 level by fiscal 20...

It is wrong for Japan to regard him as an armed and dangerous terrorist, said the 74-year-old fou...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Officials from the Japanese Defense Ministry and the Tokyo metropolitan gove...

WELLINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — New Zealand scientists on Dec. 2 began dissecting a whale considered the ...

CAPE TOWN (AFP-Jiji) — On a sunny afternoon in Cape Town’s seaside village of Simon’s Town, three...

VIENNA (AFP-Jiji) — Vienna will splash the cash on lighting up its famed Christmas markets to bri...

VILLENA, Spain (AFP-Jiji) — For decades Achille, 50, eked out a miserable existence living alone ...