More than 450 people are suing Japan’s government and seeking damages of 1,000 yen ($6) each, alleging one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters isn’t doing enough to combat global warming.

This year was not a good one for environmentalists or climate scientists as action against warming faced headwinds around the ...

Japan’s first compensation lawsuit over climate change argues that government inaction is violating citizens’ constitutional ...

Hundreds of people across Japan sued the central government on Thursday, seeking damages for its “unconstitutional” inaction on climate change, the East Asian country’s first such litigation. The ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Sunday successfully launched a climate change monitoring satellite on its mainstay H-2A rocket, which made its final flight before it is replaced by a new flagship model designed ...

IN a landmark litigation, 450 people in Japan last week sued their government for “unconstitutional” inaction on climate change. The complainants accuse the government of endangering their health and ...

Farmers and fishermen hit by climate change are taking big corporate polluters to court -- and experts say these David-vs-Goliath lawsuits are only set to multiply as the planet keeps warming. From ...

June 29 (UPI) --A Japanese company has launched a rocket designed to monitor sea temperature and greenhouse gases as part of its overall mission to study the effects of climate change on the ...

This open access book presents the latest Japanese research for the projection of climate change impacts and the evaluation of adaptation policies, with a particular focus on the S-18 Project—a ...

Around the world, rising temperatures and erratic weather are forcing animals to adapt in startling ways – with consequences ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi's call to make climate change "cool" and "sexy" rang false to some Japanese activists on Tuesday, who said he needed to lay down some ...

Hundreds of people across Japan sued the central government Thursday, seeking damages for "unconstitutional" inaction on climate change in the country's first such litigation.