Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

Efforts to control invasive predators on an ecologically fragile Japanese island have prompted unexpected developments in conservation biology. On Chichijima, part of the Ogasawara Islands nearly ...

Looking at a map, just about halfway between the vast South Atlantic Ocean between the African and South American continents, there lies a remote, lonely island. Actually, there’s a couple. They’re ...

Japan is proposing a remote Pacific island as a possible host for a nuclear waste-disposal site, an important step in the country’s plans to accelerate the restart of atomic power plants. The local ...