TOKYO (AP) — Japan adopted a new five-year ocean policy on Friday that calls for stronger maritime security, including bolstering its coast guard’s capability and cooperation with the military as ...

A Canadian anti-whaling activist who has dodged arrest in Japan for more than a decade vowed at COP30 in Brazil to continue fighting for marine protection – taking aim in particular at deep-sea mining ...

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An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

Scientists crowdsourced a network of volunteers taking water samples at beaches along the West Coast in hopes of capturing a detailed look at low levels of radiation drifting across the ocean since ...

On the morning of January 15, Sea Shepherd Captain Wyanda Lublink awoke on the Antarctic Ocean aboard her ship, the MV Steve Irwin. She had a feeling that her target — a fleet of Japanese whaling ...

A wellspring of power unlike any other can be found in the deep seas. To harness such power, Japanese engineers built a real leviathan, a beast capable of resisting the most powerful ocean currents ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: While the Japanese had seemingly scored a great victory in sinking two cruisers and a carrier these were far from the most modern ships, and perhaps it added to ...

3 Feb 2020: storage tanks for contaminated water at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, nine years after the disaster following the tsunami. The new Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihide Suga, is facing ...

Japan adopted a new five-year ocean policy on Friday, April 28, 2023, that calls for stronger maritime security, amid China’s increasing assertiveness in regional seas. (Kyodo News via AP, File) TOKYO ...

FILE - Four China coast guard vessels, right, are followed by Japan coast guard ships as they intruded into Japan's territorial waters near the disputed East China Sea islands called Senkaku by Japan ...