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

On the northeastern shores of Japan, a strange, gelatinous creature recently appeared in the surf. Pale blue and ...

Ise-Shima, Japan (CNN) — Aiko Ohno dives down in the cool waters off Japan’s Ise-Shima National Park, scanning the rocky seabed for urchins and turban shells. Three meters deep, she swims with ease ...

STORY: Beneath the surface of Japan’s Sagami Bay are heaps of spiky, black sea urchins. :: Zushi, Japan Researchers say the population here is booming – and that while sea urchins naturally graze on ...

Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave talk about endangered eagles in Japan, the lifestyles of deep-living ocean creatures and the longevity secrets of human 'SuperAgers,' aged 80 and older.

Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the director of a government innovation program said Thursday. Earlier this week ...

The East/Japan Sea is a complex and dynamic marginal sea whose circulation patterns are governed by a combination of local atmospheric forcing, basin geometry, and exchanges with surrounding margins.

A woman who was swept more than 50 miles out to sea while swimming at a Japanese beach has miraculously survived after spending 37 hours in the water, officials say. A cargo ship spotted the woman, ...

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