Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet. Invisible to the naked eye, microscopic organisms survive in some of the ...

What's the Bonin Islands? / Kazuto Kawakami -- Impacts of invasive alien species on native ecosystems on the Bonin Islands / Naoki Kachi -- The cause of mollusk decline on the Ogasawara Islands / ...

Scientists exploring one of the most remote corners of the Pacific Ocean have uncovered what they say is the deepest known ecosystem on Earth, a methane-fueled community of strange marine life ...