Environment

Amid worsening abnormal weather associated with global warming and climate change, including torr...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Dodo, the famous flightless bird that inhabited the Indian Ocean islan...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Even greater efforts to strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will fail ...

OSLO (AFP-Jiji) — A beluga whale found dead in Norway in August, suspected by some of being a Rus...

A sharp decline in the number of familiar bird species, including sparrows and Japanese wagtails,...

SAPPORO — A low-latitude aurora was observed in Hokkaido early Friday morning, turning the northe...

Mt. Everest is Earth’s tallest mountain — towering 8.85 kilometers above sea level — and is actua...

Summer has ended and taken the bugs with it, but people in Tokyo are still swarming to see them.<...

PETIT-SAGUENAY, Canada (AFP-Jiji) — Old tires, discarded cups and cigarette butts litter the magn...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) — Slimy, green seaweed floats in water-filled beakers, buckets and bins in the...

BANGKOK (AFP-Jiji) — Each year the world produces around 400 million tons of plastic waste, much ...

TAICHUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) — As the cage holding an endangered Formosan black bear swung open, co...

PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Burning plastic in dumps and open fires is as big a problem for the planet as ...

TAINAN, Taiwan (AFP-Jiji) — Growing up on Taiwan’s west coast, where mollusk farming is popular, ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Environment Ministry on Tuesday declared the eradication of non-native m...