Commentary / World Aug 24, 2018
A global environmental threat made in China
by Brahma Chellaney
From large-scale dam-building to unbridled resource-exploitation, human activity is causing serious damage to Himalayan ecosystems.
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World / Science & Health Aug 3, 2018
Researchers expressed concern Thursday about the rapid pace of climate change, after a glacier on Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain melted so much in sweltering Arctic temperatures that it is no longer the country's highest point. "It's quite scary," said Gunhild Ninis Rosqvist, a Stockholm University geography ...
World Jul 19, 2018
Lava from Kilauea 'collapse explosion' destroys evacuated Hawaiian structures
A "collapse explosion" at the summit of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on Wednesday sent a surge of lava that destroyed structures in an evacuated housing development, geologists and civil defense authorities said. The blast sparked by the gradual collapse of the volcano's crater was equivalent to ...
Language | NEWS IN NIHONGO Jul 16, 2018
The three trails on the Shizuoka Prefecture side of Mount Fuji opened on July 10 at the start of the climbing season.
National Jun 21, 2018
Record number of climbers stranded on Japanese mountains in 2017
Police say a boom in the popularity of mountaineering has led many inexperienced climbers to venture into more isolated, challenging terrain.
Asia Pacific Jun 17, 2018
Decades of commercial mountaineering have turned Mount Everest into the world's highest rubbish dump as an increasing number of big-spending climbers pay little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind. Fluorescent tents, discarded climbing equipment, empty gas canisters and even human excrement litter the ...
World Jun 7, 2018
Advancing wall of lava from Kilaueu volcano buries housing tracts on Hawaii's Big Island
An ever-creeping wall of lava from Kilauea volcano has engulfed two entire seaside housing tracts at the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island, government scientists reported Wednesday, an area where civil defense officials said nearly 280 homes once stood. The obliteration of the Kapoho Beach ...
World Jun 3, 2018
Hawaii evacuees leave newly lava-threatened homes on Big Island
U.S. National Guard troops, police and firefighters ushered the last group of evacuees from homes on the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island early on Saturday, hours before creeping lava from the Kilauea volcano severed all road access to the area, officials said. A stream ...
World Jun 2, 2018
Hawaii volcano eruption enters new phase as crater falls quiet
As lava continued to pour vigorously from the ground through fissures at the foot of Kilauea Volcano, the month-old eruption on Hawaii's Big Island has entered a new, seemingly calmer phase inside the summit crater, government scientists said on Friday. But volcanologists monitoring and measuring ...
Asia Pacific Jun 1, 2018
China has retrieved 8.5 tons of waste from Mount Everest since April as it clears garbage left by growing numbers of visitors, the state-run Global Times said on Thursday. Enthusiasts from all over the world who flock to the world's tallest mountain, at a height ...
World Jun 1, 2018
Mandatory evacuation ordered as Kilauea eruption in Hawaii hits four-week mark
The Hawaii community hardest hit by the Kilauea volcano was ordered sealed off under a strict new mandatory evacuation on Thursday as the eruption marked its fourth week with no end in sight. The Big Island's mayor, Harry Kim, declared a roughly 17-block swath of ...
World Jun 1, 2018
Hawaii's Kilauea is in the news, but tropical paradise has five other active volcanoes, too
Over the past month Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has captivated people around the world by shooting lava high into the sky and sending rivers of molten rock pouring down hillsides into the ocean. But Kilauea is only one of many volcanoes in Hawaii. Here is a ...