Higher pressure is usually associated with sunny weather, lower pressure with stormy weather. The temperature to which the air needs to be cooled for moisture to condense, for example, as dew. The ...

The sun doesn't come out much during the winter in Fukui, Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, the trio making up the Hokuriku ...

Fanned by strong winds, the wildfires have killed at least 24 people and swept through 40,000 acres in the Greater Los ...

Japan's nuclear plants faced global scrutiny after the devastating 2011 tsunami triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.

The quake was centered just offshore of Kyushu, about 7 miles east of the coastal town of Miyazaki, about 520 miles southwest ...

A strong, 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Japan on Monday, according to the United States ...

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 hit southwestern Japan, the country’s Meteorological Agency said ...

As predicted, last year beat 2023 as the warmest year on record, exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures according to several agencies, and with Canada ranking as one of the hottest places ...

Japan’s weather agency and the private Berkeley Earth team. Only two U.S. government agencies had Earth below that 1.5 mark.

Worldwide, 2024 was expected to have been the warmest recorded, the UN's weather and climate agency said last week, capping a decade of unprecedented heat and other types of extreme weather.

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan plans to map out a strategy within 2025 to boost defense equipment exports by enhancing the international competitiveness of its defense industry. The government aims to ...