methane hydrate

The Abe administration has adopted a five-year blueprint for protecting maritime interests, partly in an effort to counter territorial claims by China and South Korea.

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Japan has become the first country to extract natural gas from methane hydrate under the seabed, opening up a potential source of domestic fuel for the resource-poor nation.

Water temperatures are slowly rising, and inevitably life is beginning to stir in ponds and streams. But the transition from winter to spring always happens in fits and starts, ...

Japan and the United States plan to start early next year a joint experiment to extract methane hydrate from deep underground in Alaska to secure a supply of the relatively new ...