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WORLD
Oct 1, 2020

Ski, party, seed a pandemic: Travel rules that let COVID-19 take flight

Nine months into an outbreak that has killed 1 million people, Ischgl, Austria, is where the era of global tourism collided with a pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 19, 2020

COVID-19 tests nations' communitarian values

The world's most communitarian countries are handling the pandemic well. The most individualistic countries are doing the worst.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 21, 2020

As most airlines scrap jet orders, one tiny carrier is throttling up

Airlines are doing everything they can to scrap or delay jetliner deliveries amid an unprecedented collapse in air travel. Not Air Baltic Corp.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 29, 2018

Pressure mounts to bury carbon emissions, but who is going to pay the costs?

When countries gather Sunday to hammer out how they will enact pledges to cut carbon emissions, a Norwegian-led oil consortium will offer a solution: pump some of your excess carbon dioxide to us and we could store it for you.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 24, 2016

What's next for the EU, as Britain turns its back

Britons voted in a referendum on Thursday to leave the European Union. Following are answers to key questions on what will happen next in Britain's relations with the bloc:
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 23, 2016

Making hay while the sun shines: Should Japan adopt daylight saving time in summer?

How many times have you been jolted awake in summer at 4:30 a.m. by rays of sunlight streaming through your flimsy curtains? Conversely, how many sunsets have you missed because you've been stuck in an office until it's officially time to go home?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Apr 14, 2015

China set to surpass U.S. as main emitter of greenhouse gases in modern times: experts

In a historic shift that may raise pressure on Beijing to act, China is poised to overtake the United States as the main cause of man-made global warming since 1990, the benchmark year for U.N.-led action.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2014

Why capturing CO2 emissions remains frustratingly expensive

Deploying carbon caputure and storage technology will be essential if the rise in average global temperatures is to be limited to no more than 2 degrees Celsius by the middle of the century. Yet CCS remains frustratingly expensive.
BUSINESS
May 14, 2011

Crisis to heat up winter LNG prices

Japan, which buys about a third of the world's liquefied natural gas, is poised to import record amounts in the coming year, heralding a surge in prices as demand peaks next winter.

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