Science News: Japan's $26 billion deep-sea mining project near Minami-Tori-shima, aimed at extracting cobalt and nickel for EV batteries, faces disruption. Scientis ...

On the third Monday each July, Japan celebrates Marine Day, a commemoration of the nation’s ties to the sea. Read on to learn how this unusual holiday came about.

Patina Osaka is a new urban hotel reimagining luxury in western Japan’s largest city: find nature-inspired interiors, sound-tracked cocktails and an unusually green setting ...

Tokyo, July 14 (Jiji Press)--The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team has found through a new method using digital ...

Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic cables linking 186 observatories across the ocean floor. It’s ...

The latest design in Bernews’ weekly Wallpaper Wednesday series features ‘BDA’ gel letters floating on the ocean, blending a playful design with Bermuda’s ocean location. The design is ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the ...

Japan has hundreds of mountains, and being at a higher altitude means a cooler temperature. However, there’s just something about standing on the coast, looking out over the sparkling blue ocean, and ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.

Atsushi Sunami, president of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation The U.N. Ocean Conference was launched in 2017 with the aim of supporting the implementation of the U.N.’s sustainable development goal ...

The 2025 U.N. Ocean Conference, with the theme “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean,” will take place from June 9 to 13 in Nice, France.

Skymill does things somewhat differently. Created by the Swedish designer and engineer Gustav Rosén, crowdfunded via Kickstarter and marketed via Swedish design brand Klong, Skymill is an experiential ...