In July 2024, Japan introduced the first toll payment and restricted the daily number of hikers on the Yoshida trail to 4,000. The toll gate opened at 3am each day and closed at 4pm during the 2024 ...

Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture has brought in the toll to protect the UNESCO-designated environment. View on euronews ...

Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy ...

Switching to line drying clothes can greatly impact your energy savings and sustainability efforts in your home.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s has cut its estimate for its economic growth in the last quarter of the year to a 2.2% annual pace from ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the war's bloodiest, considering the bones silent witnesses of Okinawa's ...

A Cultural Symphony on the Roads Have you ever wondered why drivers in New York honk so much, while in Japan, a horn blast is ...

Denka, based in Japan, bought the former DuPont plant in LaPlace ... The EPA under Biden issued a related rule aimed at ...

The nexus between climate change and air pollution represents an area in which the U.S. and China can create a host of benefits that should appeal to leaders and key constituencies. Air pollution and ...

Cars more than 15 years old will soon be barred from refueling in New Delhi, the city's government said, as part of measures to reduce the Indian capital's hazardous pollution levels. New Delhi is ...

Angel Otarola, an astronomer and member of the light pollution committee of the Chilean Astronomical Society, says light pollution around the state-of-the-art Paranal Observatory is currently about 1% ...

The United Nations Environment Programme says talks will resume in August this year to put together a draft for the first-ever international treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution. The ...