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 ...

Weather officials are calling on people from western to eastern Japan to be on alert for localized downpours from Thursday ...

Experts say "heat acclimation" is important to stop heatstroke. Heat acclimation means making the body used to heat. Read the ...

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 ...

Hōkūleʻa, the Polynesian Voyaging Society traditional Hawaiian double-hulled voyaging canoe, and her sister canoe Hikianalia ...

The death prompted mountaineering experts to issue a warning against taking hikes in May when the weather is highly unstable. The 22-year-old, who lived in Tokyo, first contacted the Hotakadake Sanso ...

A series of unusually tall red auroras illuminated Japan’s skies between June 2024 and March 2025, revealing that space ...

SINGAPORE, April 24 (Reuters) - Global weather forecasters predict a strong El Nino weather phenomenon will build during the second half of 2026, threatening hotter and drier weather across much of ...

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 ...

A Korean campaigner on Tuesday issued a complaint over global search engine Google, pointing out that its local weather services describe the East Sea primarily ...

Gusts from the typhoon could equal or surpass the previous 1956 Naha record The strongest typhoon to hit Okinawa in several years lashed the southern Japanese island and surrounding areas Sunday, ...