They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa, Japan For at least six centuries, residents along a lake in the mountains of central Japan have ...

Kitimat fire officials have concluded their investigation into the Widgeon Street house fire, determining where the blaze began but unable to establish what caused it. “There just wasn’t anything that ...

Quick as a flash, Dr Cilian Roden and his colleagues on a major EPA research project on Lady’s Island Lake, Co Wexford, wrote in to The Irish Times to say: “Unfortunately, there is no need to ...

Lake Baikal measures 12,239 square miles (31,700 square kilometers), making it Earth's seventh-largest lake.It is not only the world's oldest lake but also the deepest one, at about 1 mile (1.6 ...