World Book Day 2026 arrives with translated fiction having its biggest moment yet. Ten novels from ten languages, including ...

Thousands evacuate in Japan as forest fires close in on homes - Fires have scorched more than 730 hectares since breaking out ...

For many people in Japan, the country’s regular tremors are not a big deal. Officials are urging them to prepare for the next ...

Courtesy of Seattle Public Library A new program dubbed “the largest book club on the West Coast” is uniting libraries to explore an often erased chapter of the region. For the first time ever, ...

The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor.

However, because the ultra-precise method is time-consuming, the team needed to first know when and where to look for evidence of past solar weather events. In the present study, the first clue came ...

Japan has recorded a series of powerful aftershocks in the past several hours, including a magnitude 5.7 earthquake near the east coast of Honshu and a 4.9 earthquake in the Hokkaido region shortly ...

How heavy was the rainfall overnight? How much snow fell during the winter storm? How bad is the drought this year? These are all questions that volunteer weather observers for the National Weather ...

Climate scientist Yasuyuki Aono, who died last summer, learned to read ancient Japanese script to compile records on peak ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake Monday off northern Japan sparked a short-lived tsunami alert and an advisory of a slightly higher ...

A three-meter (9.8-foot) tsunami warning was issued for Japan on Monday after a strong 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off ...