SUWA, Japan (Reuters) - Kiyoshi Miyasaka climbs the stone steps of his shrine, autumn leaves crunching under his feet. The Shinto priest, dressed in white, aims an orange leaf blower at a row of ...

This release is available in German. Sapporo/Magdeburg. Climate change will have different effects on lakes in warmer and colder regions of the globe. This is the conclusion reached by Japanese and ...

Officials in Japan believe a missing fisherman was mauled and decapitated by a bear after a human head was discovered near a lake. Toshihiro Nishikawa, 54, was last seen early Sunday when a boat ...

The calm lake has an abiotic and undisturbed lake bottom that favored the accumulation of annually layered sediments for tens of thousands of years. Credit: Professor Takeshi Nakagawa from Ritsumeikan ...

Marimo are a unique growth form of lake algae and used to be found in cold lakes in Japan and Northern Europe. However, the only place where specimens larger than 20 cm in diameter can now be found is ...

For nearly 600 years, priests at the Yatsurugi Shrine have observed ice cover on the lake here in the Japanese Alps, diligently recording it by hand and storing it safely, first in the shrine's vault ...

The advent of agriculture was a significant turning point in the history of modern humans, beyond which humans started living a sedentary life and formed a so-called 'civilization.' However, the ...

For nearly 600 years, priests at the Yatsurugi Shrine have observed ice cover on the lake here in the Japanese Alps, diligently recording it by hand and storing it safely, first in the shrine’s vault ...