2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...
2, 2025. (Mainichi/Yoko Kunimoto) The sun doesn't come out much during the winter in Fukui, Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, the trio making up the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan.
Heavy rainfall in western Japan left at least one person dead and two residents missing due to landslides and flooded roads. Prefectural authorities said an elderly male was pulled out of a car ...
The Japan Meteorological Agency will start releasing forecast information about linear rainbands, called “senjo kosuitai,” from June that could give the public major flooding warnings. “ ...
In this photo unrelated to the research, people raise a large kite in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 4, 2019. (Mainichi/Shinichi Cho) TOKYO -- Flying gigantic kites over the ocean could ...