Environment

Although the island nation has lagged behind in the field of underwater archaeology, there’s a growing thirst for sunken discoveries.

It’s official: In March, the United Nations Environmental Assembly endorsed a global pact on the life cycle of plastic. It has been declared a seismic shift in the battle against marine pollution, but what will happen to the oceans before those potential positive effects ...

The government-led drive to boost hydrogen energy and lower emissions may end up giving coal-fired power plants a new lease on life.

Tokyo’s once booming crow population has plummeted amid the COVID-19 pandemic. What does that mean for the world’s largest city?

Japan recycles and reuses its ubiquitous plastic container more than almost any other country — but some say it’s still not enough.

While supplying Tokyoites with drinking water, the river has also been prone to deadly floods over the centuries — risks that are now being escalated by climate change.

The public and private use of hot springs is leaving a significant imprint on the environment.

Urban greening not only boosts biodiversity and lowers air temperatures, it also provides a much-needed link to the natural world.

Japanese companies are rethinking how we make, use and dispose of products by creating substitutes to fossil fuel-based plastics.

The prime minister has called for Japan to be carbon neutral by 2050, but bolder measures look necessary to reduce the economic damage caused by global warming.

Author and environmentalist C.W. Nicol died on Friday after being diagnosed with cancer in 2016. As a long-standing contributor to The Japan Times, we asked his equally long-standing editor, Andrew Kershaw, to write a few words in memory of the award-winning conservationist