In 1995, divers discovered a curious structure off Amami Ōshima Island in Japan. There on the seabed they spotted a giant ...

Breeding season has arrived for humpback whales, which means it is also time for them to migrate off the coast of Amami ...

Scientists believe declining populations may be a key factor and have warned that a long-term analysis is needed to assess ...

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- As a ferry with decorative taiko drums on its hull eases into the port of Iojima, a tiny island in southwestern Japan, a welcoming rumble of rhythmic sounds from the shore ...

Each summer, the remote Italian island of Alicudi attracts a slow drip of tourists looking to escape the trappings of modernity. There are no cars or even roads on the two-square-mile volcanic ...

Amami-Oshima’s Kinsakubaru Forest, for example, is home to such primal woodland species as evergreen oak, tree fern, and 10-meter-tall Chinese guger trees. This island and Tokunoshima, just south, are ...

A 'ghost' island that suddenly appeared in the Caspian Sea in early 2023 is playing a centuries-long game of peekaboo with scientists, and it's about to vanish once again – if it hasn't already ...

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...

The island is blanketed in native forest and skirted by vibrant coral reefs. Photo: Mackenzie L. Kwak (used with permission) Unsurprisingly Amamioshima is also home to scores of endemic species, ...