A recent study by Filipino and Japanese researchers has warned of more frequent extreme rainfall, prolonged dry spells, and increased flood risks in major river basins in Luzon.
Firefighters are battling a fire that has burned through a neighborhood in southwestern Japan and forced more than 170 people to evacuate. It started Tuesday evening and was still out of ...
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How Japan Builds Flood-Proof Cities

Explore how Japan is reshaping cities to handle floods with impressive underground tunnel systems. Discover Tokyo's G-Cans Project, a massive infrastructure designed to divert floodwaters and protect ...
Hundreds of thousands of protesters, led by an influential religious group in the Philippines, took to the streets Sunday ...
Democrat wins in Virginia and New Jersey 'sent a message' across the U.S.
OUR knowledge illuminates only a little corner of the universe, hence it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely ...
China steps up tensions with Japan through island patrols and warnings to citizens, escalating a diplomatic dispute.
THE recent, deadly flooding across Cebu didn’t just expose the region’s vulnerability to extreme weather; it brought a ...
A huge fire broke out in the city of Oita, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, damaging at least 170 buildings and forcing ...
Storm Claudia has reportedly left three people dead in Portugal and unleashed large-scale flooding in Britain.
A record 13 deaths have been caused by bears this year between April and Nov. 5, and the country is ramping up efforts to ...