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New species of shrimp-like creature found in a whale shark’s mouth

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2019

Japan builds coal plants abroad that wouldn’t be allowed at home: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2019

Mysterious plants that thrive in darkness, steal food: Q&A with botanist Kenji Suetsugu

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2019

New orchid species from Japan lives on dark forest floor, never blooms

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2019

Ocean currents spin a web of interconnected fisheries around the world

Basten Gokkon 4 Jul 2019

Japan resumes commercial whale hunting

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2019

Otter cafés and ‘cute pets craze’ fuel illegal trafficking in Japan and Indonesia

Erik Hoffner 28 May 2019

Japan leaving IWC, to resume commercial whaling

Mongabay.com 26 Dec 2018
Rose-ringed parakeets seized from the parrot trade in Senegal. Photo courtesy of Davide de Guz/World Parrot Trust

Deadly parrot virus found in native birds from Asia and Africa

Erin I. Garcia de Jesus 5 Dec 2018
A grey wolf in Montana. Photo by Dan Zukowski.

Restore wolves or slaughter deer to save Japanese forests?

Dan Zukowski 20 Nov 2018

Whales and dolphins change the way they communicate in a noisy ocean

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

These Asian monkeys can’t taste the sweetness of natural sugars

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Sep 2018

The Japan pig is a tiny colorful pygmy seahorse smaller than a fingernail

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2018

Ocean acidity stifles coral-anchored communities

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2018

Government subsidies serving to prop up destructive high-seas fishing: study

Basten Gokkon 8 Jun 2018
Pacific bluefin tuna. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A Pacific bluefin tuna sold for $323,000. Can the species be saved?

Bonnie Waycott 12 Jan 2018
A manta ray in the South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

2017’s top 10 ocean news stories

Douglas McCauley and Paul DeSalles 27 Dec 2017

The world’s newest great ape, revealed a month ago, is already nearly extinct: IUCN

Basten Gokkon 7 Dec 2017

High volumes of ivory continue to be sold online in Japan

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Aug 2017

Leaked terms of huge EU-Japan trade deal spark environmental alarm

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Jun 2017

The meat hook: satiating Asia’s demand for beef

Maxine Chen 27 Apr 2017

Testing the water: identifying marine communities through eDNA

Colleen O'Brien 24 Feb 2017

New maps show how our consumption impacts wildlife thousands of miles away

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2017

New parasitic plant doesn’t use photosynthesis; its flowers never bloom

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2016

Tadpoles found living in Japanese streams with hottest water ever recorded for an amphibian

Mike Gaworecki 5 Aug 2016

Japan kills 333 whales, including 200 pregnant females

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Mar 2016

‘Status symbols’: Japan emerging as major hub for illegal trade in slow lorises due to their popularity as pets

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Feb 2016

Giant squid caught on video in Japanese harbor

Mongabay.com 28 Dec 2015

The Black-faced Spoonbill: Asia’s beloved wading bird fights for space

Doug Meigs 2 Nov 2015

The snake that decapitates its prey

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Jul 2015

Russia bans driftnet fishing, a reprieve for seabirds and marine mammals

Rebecca Kessler 10 Jul 2015

US ambassador reiterates commitment to controversial Okinawa air base, a setback for endangered dugong

Greg Norman 6 Jul 2015

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