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Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 16, 2023

Summer-tested Phoenix braves relentless wave of extreme heat

Despite the trend toward more very hot days, Phoenix residents have tended to shrug off the heat; they are simply accustomed to dealing with it.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2023

Record heat waves push India closer to limit of human survival

The national weather office has forecast rising temperatures in the coming weeks after India experienced its hottest February since 1901.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 11, 2022

How 'chief heat officers' keep cities cool as the world warms

The role is focused on protecting vulnerable residents — mainly women, the elderly and low-income communities — from rising temperatures.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 19, 2022

Climate change's fingerprints on ever hotter heat waves

The India-Pakistan heat wave in March was calculated to have been 30 times more likely with the more than 1.1 C of warming that human activity has caused since the mid-19th century.
JAPAN
Jul 24, 2018

Record-breaking high temperatures likely a 'new normal' for Japan, experts warn

Official climate forecasts and experts are warning that the recent rise in temperatures is likely to become the new normal in the years ahead.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 16, 2023

Record heat waves sweep the world, from U.S. to Japan via Europe

Parts of eastern Japan are expected to reach 38 to 39 degrees Celsius, with the Meteorological Agency warning temperatures could hit previous records.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 5, 2019

More marine heat waves threatening fish and corals: study

The frequency of ocean heat waves has surged more than 50 percent since the early 20th century in a threat to fish, corals and other marine life stoked by global warming, an international study showed on Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 3, 2023

Here are five ways finance is trying to de-risk heat waves

From heatstroke insurance to plans that reimburse dairy farmers when cows are too hot to produce milk, a new wave of products may help communities.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 20, 2022

U.K. breaches 40 C for first time as heat records tumble in France

Experts have blamed climate change for the soaring temperatures — and warned that worse is yet to come.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 4, 2021

Heat, storms and blackouts: Summer is already off to a wild start

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is just days old, but the extremes keep piling up.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2021

Once-in-50-year heat waves now happening every decade

Heat waves, droughts and torrential rains are set to become more frequent and extreme as the earth warms further, a U.N. climate science report says.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 26, 2022

Thinning Antarctic ice shelf finally crumbles after heat wave

Satellite images show the 1,200 square-kilometer Conger Ice Shelf in east Antarctica collapsed completely on or around March 15.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 28, 2018

Australia likely to set December heat record, prompting fire bans and health warnings

Australia looks set to sweat through one of its hottest Decembers ever, the national weather bureau said on Friday, prompting fire bans, health warnings and big crowds trying to cool off at beaches.
Japan Times
Reference / EXPLAINER,Q&A
Jul 20, 2018

Q&A: How to survive this year's scorching summer in Japan

This year's heat wave is again lethal, having already killed over 30 people and sent more than 10,000 to hospitals since July 9 due to heat exhaustion and heatstroke.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 15, 2022

Amid devastating heat, Europe's climate change impacts make adaptation harder

Heat waves and droughts are expected to overwhelm swaths of the continent this summer, causing fires, halting power plants and cutting crop output.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 24, 2020

New York’s sweltering heat is the new normal for climate change

New Yorkers sweating through this month’s heat wave can blame the oceans — a cool patch of water off the Pacific coast of Peru, more than 3,500 miles away (5,632 kilometers), and near-record warmth offshore in the Atlantic. The cause and effect is a reminder that climate change’s toll is coming...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 3, 2017

Wide areas of southern China hit by flooding while heat wave strikes the north

Torrential rain lashed parts of central and south China on Monday, with floods damaging crops, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and killing at least 33, while the north wilted in a heat wave and droughtlike conditions.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 23, 2015

Heat wave kills 400 in Karachi; rain expected

A devastating heat wave has killed more than 400 people in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi over the past three days, health officials said on Tuesday, as paramilitaries set up emergency medical camps in the streets.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 22, 2023

A sweaty robot may help humans understand impact of soaring heat

How can we protect ourselves in a warming planet? To answer this burning questions, Arizona researchers have deployed a robot that can breathe, shiver and sweat.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 23, 2021

Heat, floods and fires: Jet stream is key link in climate disasters

Jet stream changes can cause winds to weaken, allowing dangerous weather to remain stuck in the same place for days or weeks at a time.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 16, 2022

Mumbai heat wave leaves fewer fish in the sea for female sellers

Located on the Arabian Sea, a particularly fast-warming part of the Indian Ocean, Mumbai has experienced unseasonal rains, cyclones and extreme heat in the past five years.
Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shade themselves from the sun as they arrive at the base of Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, on June 15.
WORLD
Jun 28, 2024

Climate change boosted deadly Saudi Hajj heat by 2.5 degrees, scientists say

The heat would have been approximately 2.5 degrees Celsius cooler without the influence of human-caused climate change, according to a team of European scientists.
An apartment building construction site in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, on July 19. Officials at Daito Trust Construction, which oversees the building project, say heatstroke dangers are a top concern given their aging workforce.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
Jul 30, 2023

In Japan, extreme heat and an aging population are a deadly mix

Heat waves combined with high humidity are weighing particularly heavily on the nation’s 36 million people age 65 and over, who are at much greater risk of severe illness and death.
Vendors protect themselves from the scorching heat and sun by using big shades and umbrellas in the Kalighat Temple area of Kolkata, India. The city is facing multiple extreme heat days this summer and citizens are trying to find ways to cope with the weather.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
May 16, 2024

Heat waves are testing India's ability to protect 1.4 billion people

Attempts to improve resilience to extreme heat have often been ill-conceived.
Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shade themselves during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, on Saturday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jun 21, 2024

Deadly heat waves mark Northern Hemisphere's first day of summer

Record temperatures in recent days are suspected to have caused hundreds, possibly thousands, of deaths across Asia and Europe.
People use umbrellas during a hot summer day in Ginza, Tokyo, in August.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 1, 2024

Extreme heat takes big toll on work and elderly mortality in Japan: report

The annual Lancet Countdown report says the world is facing elevated threats in 10 of 15 health indicators due to climate change.
Air conditioners are assembled at a unit of Daikin Industries at a plant in Shiga Prefecture in August 2017.
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2024

Japan air conditioner sales booming amid scorching heat

Households are rushing to buy energy-saving products as replacements to curb soaring electricity bills. Demand in cold regions is also rising.
Cracked and dry earth in the wide riverbed of the Loire River near the Anjou-Bretagne bridge, amid a heat wave in Ancenis-Saint-Gereon, France, in 2022
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Apr 22, 2024

Europe's record 'extreme heat stress' days in 2023 put lives at risk: report

Prolonged exposure to heat stress is particularly dangerous for vulnerable people such as the elderly or those with preexisting health conditions.
Farm labourers, with their faces covered for protection from heat, work in a field on a hot day in Karnal, India, on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT
Jun 7, 2024

Everyone you know will eventually be highly vulnerable to extreme heat

Intense heat waves in recent years offer a stark warning of what’s at stake for humanity and particularly the vulnerable elderly population.
A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
BUSINESS / Economy / Longform
Aug 26, 2024

Is extreme weather changing the way Japan shops?

Intense heat and an increase in storms, by-products of a changing climate, are altering consumer behavior.
Isekai anime offers a key to understanding globalization
“The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic” centers on three teenage protagonists who are transported into a fantasy world where they must grapple with a foreign culture.
30 minutes with Yuzuru Hanyu
Yuzuru Hanyu smiles during an interview in his hometown of Sendai in between performances of his latest tour, Ice Story.
Trump’s trash talk revives the worst of world politics
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's provocative rhetoric targeting Panama, Greenland and Canada underscores his preference for bold power plays over traditional rules-based diplomacy.
The unnervingly timed return of ‘Squid Game’
In season two of "Squid Game," protagonist Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) returns to put an end to the deadly competition.
Disaster-hardened Japan faces enormous costs from climate change
Rescue workers search a flooded area during the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis, which caused severe floods at the Chikuma River, in the city of Nagano in October 2019.
Japan top diplomat visits South Korea amid political turmoil in Seoul
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (left) and his South Korean counterpart, Cho Tae-yul, shake hands during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Monday.
30 minutes with Yuzuru Hanyu
Yuzuru Hanyu smiles during an interview in his hometown of Sendai in between performances of his latest tour, Ice Story.
Disaster-hardened Japan faces enormous costs from climate change
Rescue workers search a flooded area during the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis, which caused severe floods at the Chikuma River, in the city of Nagano in October 2019.
‘Dorayaki’ creators say flavors trump the dessert’s murky origins
'Dorayaki' (red bean paste-filled pancakes) are humble treats with delicate sweetness — and the two Tokyo shops who may have created the treat are similarly light-handed in the way they pursue their claims as the originator of the morsel.
The case for Japan-ifying everything you cook
Pan-roasted baby beets, carrots, turnips and orange may be an otherwise American dish, but Sonoko Sakai's addition of lemon-miso yogurt turns it into a 'wafū' (Japanese style) marvel.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

It's back to the classroom for some residents as municipal governments across the country conduct lessons to learn how to use new technologies.
Can aging Japan go digital without leaving anyone behind?
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