Prior to last winter’s sighting, the raptor was spotted at the mouth of a river on Kunashiri Island, part of the Northern Territories off the northeast coast of Nemuro, in July 2001, according ...

This past winter, as in all earlier years, drift ice (also called ice floes) descended on various sections of Hokkaido’s northeastern coast facing the Sea of Okhotsk. The city of Nemuro saw the ...

It’s really, really cold again — as the US shivers through at least the eighth blast of air from the Arctic this winter. Winter, which is warming faster than any other season for much of the ...