The Okhostk culture thrived in northern Hokkaido from the fifth to ninth centuries and may have provided the Ainu with some ...

In Japanese folklore, appearances of these elusive marine creatures dubbed ‘doomsday fish’ are believed to foreshadow ...

Sea otters have been missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, and local non-profit Elakha Alliance is trying to ...

A Liberia-flagged cargo ship carrying corn from a Russian port to Turkey is trying to stop water leaking in after sustaining a crack in the Sea of Azov earlier this week, Russia's port agency said.

Oarfish are rarely documented by scientists, but one was seen this month by a group visiting a beach in Mexico.

A rarely seen oarfish appeared in shallow water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Feb. 9, surprising beachgoers. The ...

MOSCOW. Feb 18 (Interfax) - The operator of the Sakhalin-2 PSA project, Sakhalin Energy LLC, which is owned by Russia's Gazprom and Japan's Mitsui and Mitsubishi, has extended its production license ...

Weather officials in Abashiri City, which is located in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido, have announced that ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

Russian authorities have successfully rescued 139 fishermen who became stranded on an ice floe that broke away from Sakhalin ...

The yearly drift ice spectacle upon the Sea of Okhotsk was first observed from shore on Feb. 15 as slabs of ice neared the ...