There are many good reasons to guzzle down a Japanese hotpot. One being: it’s delicious. However, fatigue from having kayaked in 32C temperatures through mangrove forests is rarely one of them. Writer ...

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A biologist walking on a beach in northeastern Japan spotted what looked like a jellyfish, but it was not one. The blue, ...

There are many good reasons to guzzle down a Japanese hotpot. First of all: it’s delicious. But fatigue from having kayaked in 32C temperatures through mangrove forests is rarely one of them. My plane ...

Imagine yourself enjoying a tranquil, warm, clear morning at a beach and are expecting to hear nothing but the gentle surf and occasionally a stray seashell. But instead, you come across an enormous, ...

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