Drift ice, the annual winter spectacle that draws tour boats in Japan’s northern seas, will soon be few and far between due to global warming, scientists warn. A study by Hokkaido University ...

Drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk became visible from ... the sea at ticket offices called “Midori no madoguchi” at Japan Railway Co. (JR) train stations or on the train ticket website ...

Hokkaido/Japan - Ice climbing trip to the land of the rising sun ... surrounded by several sea eagles and tons of ice drifting in the sea behind us. This is a really special place, but sadly it was ...

The Sea of Okhotsk lines the coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, the northernmost main island of Japan. Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the ...

Seas off the coast of Hokkaido's Abashiri are now covered with drift ice, chunks of freshwater ice that emerge from the Amur River. The largest pieces are more than ten meters across and some are ...