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KUSHIRO, Hokkaido—“Marimo” moss balls, the fuzzy green spheres that have brought fame to Lake Akanko here, are shrinking because of global warming, a research group found.
The student's death on Japan's Mount Diasengen comes as the country sees a marked rise in bear attacks on humans this year.
Hunters used fire crackers to try to scare the bears out, without success. They later set up a pair of cages at the entrance of the factory in Japan.
RAUSU, Hokkaido–A rare sighting of a starving brown bear scrounging desperately for food underscored the severe crisis facing the apex predator on the eastern coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula.
The Amazon, Yosemite and Kakadu garner well-deserved attention, but there are many lesser-visited places that are equally worthy of our attention.