May 22, 2013
The nuclear disaster in Japan two years ago ignited a push to develop a new and clean energy industry, but those efforts are being stymied by a raft of regulations.
April 22, 2013
Japan is expected to take a back seat at a United Nations meeting on climate change in Germany later this month as the Abe administration lacks a specific goal on reducing the nation's carbon footprint.
April 06, 2013
YOKOHAMA--To thwart invasive species, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. unveiled a new device that removes living organisms from ships' ballast water at Yokohama Port's Honmoku Pier on April 5.
February 21, 2013
BEIJING--China will force heavily polluting industries to participate in a compulsory insurance program to ensure they can adequately provide compensation for damage, the government said on Feb. 21.
February 04, 2013
BEIJING--The search for culprits behind the rancid haze enveloping China's capital has turned a spotlight on the country's two largest oil companies and their resistance to tougher fuel standards.
February 02, 2013
BEIJING--China's notoriously smog-bound capital Beijing asked residents on Feb. 1 to set off fewer fireworks over this month's Chinese New Year period as it battles a persistent air quality crisis.
February 01, 2013
Traces of China's air pollution have reached southwestern Japan, alarming residents and leading government officials to consider international cooperation to deal with the problem.
December 26, 2012
Governments next month are expected to agree on restrictions concerning the industrial use and trade of mercury for an international treaty aimed at reducing health hazards and environmental pollution, sources said.
December 26, 2012
With the need for alternative energy sources growing, an Akita-based company is trying to tap into the constant wind blowing in from the Sea of Japan.
December 19, 2012
Precious deposits of manganese dioxide are scattered at few places around the world at surface level.
December 03, 2012
SINGAPORE--Carbon dioxide emissions from industry rose an estimated 2.6 percent in a weak global economy this year, a study released on Dec. 3 showed, powered by rapid emissions growth in China and India, which may add urgency to U.N. climate talks in Doha.
November 18, 2012
POKOLA, Congo—At a central market here near the new Sangha Trinational World Heritage site, monkeys, duikers, a type of antelope, and many other wild animals are on sale. A storekeeper chops them down with a knife more than 30 cm long.
October 23, 2012
A huge wind turbine built in the Pacific off the coast of Chiba Prefecture was shown to media representatives Oct. 22.
October 16, 2012
Hitachi Ltd. and other Japanese nuclear power plant manufacturers will have to rethink their export strategies after a referendum in Lithuania sent plans for a nuclear plant back to the drawing board.
October 16, 2012
VILNIUS--Lithuanians rejected a plan to build a nuclear plant to cut dependence on imports of Russian energy, in a non-binding referendum that does not kill off the project but leaves a question mark over its future.
October 15, 2012
BERLIN--Germany's tax on households' electricity bills to finance the expansion of renewable energies will rise almost 50 percent on the year as the country pushes ahead with phasing out nuclear power within a decade.
September 21, 2012
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean covered only 3.49 million square kilometers as of Sept. 16, the smallest area on record, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Sept. 20.
September 14, 2012
Japan's government said it intends to stop using nuclear power by the 2030s, marking a major shift from policy goals set before last year's Fukushima disaster that sought to increase the share of atomic energy to more than half of electricity supply.
September 14, 2012
Energy recycling in Japan is getting a new spin as turbines can now be powered by low-temperature steam and hot springs, sources that were until now ignored as waste.
August 21, 2012
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is expected to shrink to a record level this summer, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Aug. 20.