An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 hit parts of eastern Japan on Monday afternoon. However, there were no reports of injury or damage to any buildings.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 hit eastern Japan on Wednesday night, but no tsunami warning was issued, public broadcaster NHK said.
Japan has started culling more than 300,000 chickens and ducks after the discovery of a highly contagious form of bird flu on farms in the north of the country, local officials said.
Civil aviation officials are expected to endorse a proposal that would have airlines buy credits to offset rising carbon emissions, at a 10-day meeting that opened in Montreal Tuesday.
A powerful typhoon slammed into Japan on Tuesday, leaving at least three dozen people injured and one missing, as torrential rains caused serious flooding that washed away a bridge and inundated ho
The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck in the sparsely populated Izu Islands region south-southeast of Japan’s main island of Honshu.
Climate change and the spread of invasive ragweed are set to double the number of seasonal allergy sufferers across Europe, with similar impacts likely in North America, researchers say.
