From skateboarding to baseball, the 2021 Tokyo Olympics are adding sports that are popular in Japan to the summer games.

What is billed as France's biggest and best festival of lights begins in earnest tonight. "La fete des lumieres" takes place each year in the south-eastern city of Lyon and this edition, the 13th, promises to be bigger than ever.To honour the victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan is the s...

Calbuco, the Chilean volcano which erupted violently twice mid April, 2015 for the first time in 40 years, spewed out a plume of ash more than six miles high and blanketed parts of Chile and Argentina. More than 4,000 were evacuated but thankfully no deaths or injuries have been reported. Rodrigo B...

Japanese Sumo Robots wrestling as a sport and a gambling tool using advaced technology.

Olympics organizers have created an archipelago of controlled zones across Japan for about 60,000 foreign visitors including athletes and staff.

The opening of the fissures and lava flow from Kilauea Volcano follow a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude-6.9 quake on Friday, and the earlier collapse of a nearby crater, emptying the lake of lava within. The unfolding disaster is unpredictable, and may take a very long time to calm down...

A movie inspired on numbers, geometry and nature, by Cristóbal Vila

The first case of a crocodile who made herself pregnant has been identified at a zoo in Costa Rica.
She produced a foetus that was 99.9% genetically identical to herself. The phenomenon of so-called "virgin birth" has been found in species of birds, fish and other reptiles, but never before in croc...

Every spring, jacarandas bloom in Mexico City. The colorful purple flowers are a living legacy of a Japanese gardener. The Mexican president wanted cherry trees. It was 1930, and President Pascual Ortiz Rubio had seen them lining the streets of Washington and desired the same beautiful spectacle fo

People around the world have been transfixed by images of red and orange lava fountains exploding out of volcanic vents on Hawaii's Big Island. Three weeks of destruction from Mount Kilauea is costing the island millions with fears it could damage tourism there for months ahead.