Mount Fuji, a 12,000-foot peak located on the Japanese island of Honshu, is still lacking any measurable snow, extending a ...

Mount Fuji is Japan's highest peak, stands at 12,388 feet (3,776 meters) on the Pacific Ocean coast, straddling the Yamanashi ...

The snow-capped peak of Mount Fuji is one of the most iconic sights in Japan. But this year the volcano’s slopes have ...

Luckily, the western side of Honshu is home to a chain of tall mountains (the Japanese Alps) that, along with perfectly conical volcanoes further inland and up north on Hokkaido, catch all the ...

We'd arrived in Kamikochi roughly mid-way through a month-long trip around Honshu, Japan's largest island ... the autumn-coloured mountains of the Hodaka, the golden Japanese larch forest by ...

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. From the back of a bush plane at Mission Field, the Crazy Mountains ...

By Alexander Nazaryan Michael Frachetti was on an archaeological dig high in the mountains of southeastern Uzbekistan in 2015 when a forestry official approached him. “You know, I’ve seen some ...

The Orionid meteor shower, courtesy of the famed Halley's Comet, is forecast to reach its peak in a matter of days, when it will send a flurry of bright and fast meteors shooting across the night sky.

Road bikes and mountain bikes are among the most popular types of bikes you can buy. But they're very different. Their frames look completely different, one has fat tyres while the other has ...

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Opinions on the timing and impact of peak oil vary widely. For example, organizations in the Middle East and America, such as OPEC, view oil as a long-term player, expecting the peak to be around ...