Energy & Environment

2024.04.16

The University of Tokyo demonstrates that biodegradable plastics can be degraded by microorganisms in the deep ocean

2024.04.03

Ishikari Bay New Port Offshore Wind Farm begins operation achieving a domestic record output of 8,000 kW

2024.04.02

Second Emergency Survey Navigation after the Noto Peninsula Earthquake by JAMSTEC's Hakuho Maru

2024.03.25

A Look Around Innovation, Part 9: Sustainable energy gained through water current power generation — Development of a flowmeter to observe flooding in small and medium-sized rivers

2024.03.25

Northern Bering Sea: Early sea ice melt reduces productivity — Revealed by Hokkaido University zooplankton size survey

2024.03.21

Predicting and controlling the weather with high powered simulations: An interview with Moonshot researcher Le Duc

2024.03.18

Tohoku University and Future University Hakodate develop method for predicting wind speed and direction from plant images by utilizing natural phenomena as computational resources

2024.03.14

The Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute successfully develops cultivation technology for the stable artificial cultivation of black and white truffles

2024.03.11

Emergency observation voyage carried out by JAMSTEC to investigate the epicenter of the Noto Peninsula Earthquake

2024.02.22

A 26-meter-high fault cliff formed in the Japan Trench by the Great East Japan Earthquake — Niigata University and collaborators undertake manned submarine assessment

2024.02.21

Ice cores are climate time capsules — Aiming to shed light on the million years of the Earth's history

2024.02.20

A new species of troglomorphic trechine beetle from the karst region of Okinawa's main island accidentally discovered by local researchers

2024.02.16

COP28 agrees to "transition away from fossil fuels" and calls on all countries to share the sense of crisis and agree to further emissions reductions

2024.02.07

Tohoku University discovers plant temperature sensor molecule: The Rain Tree folds its leaves in the rain

2024.02.06

Keio Senior High School student discovers 300,000-year-old insect fossil — Expectations for use in clarifying speciation

2024.02.06

New population of Kirkaldyia deyrolli discovered in southern Kumamoto Prefecture — DNA polymorphism data acquired from approximately 60,000 locations

2024.01.29

Hokkaido University finds that the dietary habits of grasshoppers altered by automobile noise through fecal analysis — Does intense stress cause dietary intake diversity?

2024.01.25

Draft conventions for preventing growing global plastic waste pollution are in the works: Expectations that regulations will inevitably face difficulties

2024.01.19

NARO develops prototype for detecting abnormal strains of potato with AI support — Notification through sound and image based on video recording

2024.01.15

Using low-temperature, low-pressure liquefied CO₂ to realize low-cost mass transportation: Demonstration test ship "EXCOOL" completed with expectations for social implementation in the future

2024.01.11

JAMSTEC discovers mysterious jellyfish with a cross-shaped stomach in submarine caldera of the Ogasawara Islands

2024.01.10

Mast seeding of Sasa borealis influences foraging behavior of field mice: A field study by Nagoya University yields results

2023.12.18

Kyushu University and the FFPRI analyze approximately 400 sites around Cambodia and find that community forest management effective for forest conservation