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TEPCO employees are seen next to the part of an underground ice wall unit at tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture

Explained: What Is the ‘Wall of Ice’ at Fukushima’s Crippled Nuclear Plant?

Elaine Lies and Ju-min Park 25/01/2022

The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant recently...

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A Coronavirus Outbreak May Have Swept East Asia 20,000 Years Ago

Yassine Souilmi and Ray Tobler 26/06/2021

Scientists have found evidence of genetic adaptation to the...

A worker talks on the phone near No. 3 reactor building at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture

Ten Years After Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Meltdown, Cause for Worry Persists

Ken Buesseler 13/03/2021

The cleanup of the past decade at the Japanese...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga holds a New Year's press conference at his official residence in Tokyo

COVID-19: Japan PM Says Government Will Consider State of Emergency for Tokyo

Reuters 04/01/2021

Japan reported 4,520 new cases on December 31, prompting...

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Japan’s Bird Flu Outbreak Spreads To Second Prefecture

Reuters 10/12/2020

About 93,500 chickens on a farm in Munakata city...

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Simple Road Maps Show India’s Cities Are Snaking Towards Ecological, Social Chaos

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/01/2020

New roads in Pune, Kolkata, Vijayawada, Coimbatore, Mumbai and...

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Japan Issues Evacuation Advisories to Over a Million People as Typhoon Hits Central Coast

Elaine Lies 04/09/2018

Typhoon Jebi was briefly a super typhoon and is...