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CLIMATE CHANGE

COMMENTARY / World
Apr 12, 2015
The reality of Mexico's climate change promise
Mexico has become the first developing nation to meet the United Nations' challenge to publish a road map for combating climate change.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Apr 11, 2015
California faces extreme heat waves, rising seas
A day after California imposed mandatory water restrictions to battle a four-year drought, a new study on global warming suggests the worst is yet to come. The average number of days with temperatures higher than 35 degrees Celsius may double or even triple by the end of the century, threatening one...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Apr 4, 2015
New neighbors, please go away
When I came to live in Kurohime in northern Nagano Prefecture in the late autumn of 1980, I was a bit awed by the amount of snow, which piles up and compacts to a depth of 5 meters in the mountains.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 25, 2015
Chile says drought here to stay, lays out plan to ensure water
With no end in sight to a drought that has blighted Chile for the last several years, the government will invest in desalinization plants and reservoirs to ensure access to potable water, President Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 20, 2015
Arctic sea ice covers record low extent this winter
Arctic sea ice has set a new winter record by freezing over the smallest extent since satellite records began in 1979, in a new sign of long-term climate change, U.S. data showed on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT
Feb 27, 2015
China's top climate negotiator removed from leadership list
China's top climate change negotiator has been removed from the nation's leadership list, appearing to confirm media reports he has retired, but the move has left it unclear who will lead China at crucial climate talks in Paris at the end of the year.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2015
Breaking Europe's climate-change stalemate
If Europe is to remain an environmental leader as well as a center of innovation, it will have to embrace realistic solutions that can deliver environmental benefits without sacrificing economic development.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2015
Global accord on climate won't be enough
As a new global agreement on reducing carbon emissions won't come into effect until 2020, a global stand must be bolstered by country initiatives to help address the socioeconomic effects of climate change that are already being felt.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 9, 2015
Learn from climate change's instructive past
How do climate-change Cassandras accommodate historical evidence of enormously consequential episodes of climate change that were not produced by human activity?
WORLD / Society
Jan 9, 2015
Experts warn governments to plan for climate change migrants
Governments need to plan better for rising migration driven by climate change, experts said on Thursday, citing evidence that extreme weather and natural disasters force far more people from their homes than wars.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Dec 12, 2014
Japan's coal binge stirs international climate fears
Once at the forefront of the global warming battle, Japan is being pressured to set fresh emissions targets as it burns dirty coal energy to replace nuclear.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 6, 2014
Animals at extinction risk from climate change
Animals are dying off in the wild at a pace as great as the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago because of human activity and climate change.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2014
Sino-U.S. climate deal mainly a political triumph
The U.S.-China emissions deal is a huge political triumph, but whether it alters the world's climate is an open question.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2014
What global warming? Pass me a blanket
Unfortunately for proponents of climate change, people subconsciously use the current local temperature as a clue to whether global temperatures are increasing.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Nov 22, 2014
Climate change versus solution aversion
No doubt you are relieved to hear that climate change is no longer a concern. At least that's the consensus of powerful Republicans who will lead the newly elected majority soon to take control of both houses of the U.S. Congress.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2014
More insulation can help China clean up its act
During the 2000s, nearly half of the world's new buildings were erected in China, yet only five percent of them met China's energy efficiency standards.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Nov 15, 2014
Shrinking well: Is depopulation affecting Japan's energy, climate goals?
Keishi looks a lot like it did when Toshiko Nakamura first moved there four decades ago. The quiet farming community in Nagano Prefecture is a patchwork of verdant rice fields, lush kitchen gardens and picturesque post-and-beam houses nestled between pine and chestnut trees on the slopes of Mount Hijiri....
EDITORIALS
Nov 11, 2014
No excuse for inaction on emissions
The latest report by the U.N. panel on climate change may not offer any new surprises concerning the threat of global warming, but it does remind us that doing too little, or waiting too long, to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases could be disastrous.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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