Temblor trauma

Japan's most ferocious earthquake in 50 years flattened the latest perceptions and innovations of safety

Creative carbon accounting

The Kyoto protocol, agreed in December 1997, was the first step to curtail emissions of the industrialised world. It is now being used to set up …

Smoky flashback

JAPAN’S EXPERIENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST AIR POLLUTION· Takamitsu Sawal ·The pollution-related health damage compensation and …

Nuclear nightmare

Japan is hit by yet another nuclear accident. Low safety standards and tardy government action aggravates the situation

A Fair Deal?

DTE Senior Editor Latha Jishnu explains how the access and benefit sharing protocol on biodiversity is -- and isn't -- a fair deal for …

Guinea pig out, computer in

Computer-based methods can accurately predict drug side-effects

Ebb and flow of Kawasaki

Scientists say the spread of the mysterious disease may be linked to wind patterns

Turned turtle

Fighting pollution

Punishing the offender

To whale or not to whale

Nations for and against whaling clash once again, and fail to reach consensus

Bottled up by plastics

Feud settled

Quick worker

Promising earthquake warning system tested

Microsoft opens windows, just a crack

Company to reveal source code, but there is a catch

Fissile debate over fusion

Shells turn brittle

The Japanese archipelago now has double the islands from 1987; here is why

Digitalisation, inclusion of lake and riverine islands and the 2011 Tohoku quake, all could be reasons

Beware of Japan's trade ambitions

Japan is pushing for higher levels of intellectual property protection that will cut access to affordable medicines

El Niño gathers strength, likely to continue into winter: Japan Met agency

There are fears that a strong El Niño this year like the one in 1997-98, will push up food inflation across South and Southeast Asia

Waiting for El Niño

Going against the predictions of other meteorological agencies in the world, Japan Meteorological Agency took a bold step by announcing the onset …

All eyes on Akatsuki Maru

As the world follows the Akatsuki Maru and its 1.3 tonnes of plutonium oxide on its controversial trans-oceanic journey from France to Japan, …

Typhoon Wipha kills 17 in Japan

Japan Meteorological Agency had called it once-in-a-decade event

English distress

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Soil as seismic radar

Chemical changes in the soil hold clues