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CLIMATE CHANGE

Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 13, 2020
How one firm drove influence campaigns for big oil across the U.S.
In early 2017 the Texans for Natural Gas website went live, urging voters to "thank a roughneck” and support fracking. Around the same time, the Arctic Energy Center ramped up its advocacy for drilling in Alaskan waters and in a vast Arctic wildlife refuge. The next year, the Main Street Investors...
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 12, 2020
Indigenous leaders count on Biden to help save Amazon from 'brink of collapse'
Biden's election as the next U.S. leader, replacing climate change skeptic Donald Trump, has raised expectations that conserving the rainforest will get greater attention and priority.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2020
New technology claims to pinpoint even small methane leaks from space
The development comes amid growing alarm about methane's role driving global warming.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2020
Development banks make landmark climate pledge, but no fossil fuel phase out
The world's public development banks on Wednesday pledged to align their financial firepower with the Paris Agreement on climate change but avoided a firm commitment to phase out fossil fuel financing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2020
A Ferrari may be less polluting than you think
Ferrari's boss has taken issue with European environmental regulations that aim to cut emissions by penalizing the sale of vehicles with particularly thirsty engines.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 11, 2020
G20 countries still backing fossil fuels through COVID-19 response
Despite repeated pledges to end subsidies for oil, gas and coal, G20 governments continue to fund fossil fuels, with the COVID-19 crisis doing little to change that, a new report says.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Nov 10, 2020
Trump’s environmental legacy may be lasting harm to the climate
Greenhouse pollution accumulates in the atmosphere, so the heat-trapping gases emitted as a result of loosened regulations will remain for decades, regardless of policy shifts.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 10, 2020
Scientists watch as glaciers in China melt at 'shocking' pace
Glaciers in China's bleak Qilian mountains are disappearing at a shocking rate as global warming brings unpredictable change and raises the prospect of crippling, long-term water shortages, scientists say.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Nov 9, 2020
Japan faces high costs in achieving Suga's 2050 carbon neutrality target
The country lacks suitable geography for building many solar and wind farms, and the power sector is just one area in which carbon emissions need to be slashed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 5, 2020
U.S. formally exits global climate pact amid election uncertainty
Trump's Democratic rival, Joe Biden, has promised to rejoin the agreement if elected.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 3, 2020
Honda joins Fiat in paying Tesla for European emissions compliance
Selling regulatory credits to other carmakers has been a boon to Tesla, bringing in almost $1.2 billion of revenue this year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Nov 2, 2020
Make Science Great Again: U.S. researchers dream of life after Trump
Dozens of U.S.-based climate scientists shifted their research to France, or sought refuge in academia or in left-leaning states after Donald Trump was elected in 2016.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Nov 1, 2020
‘Hydrogen wars’ pit Europe against China for $700 billion business
Governments, energy giants, automobile companies and lobbying groups say hydrogen use is pivotal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Oct 29, 2020
Following the crowd, Suga makes a bold climate pledge
Genuine, sustainable progress depends on changing economic incentives for energy production and use.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2020
The world enters a new age of radical uncertainty
When it comes to the pandemic, or climate change, we may have to accept a certain amount of coexistence, even as we develop countermeasures.
Nissan says it will not take new U.S. orders for Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs
A Nissan manufacturing complex in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Nissan says it will not take new orders from the United States for two Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs following new auto tariffs levied by the U.S.
Why Japan is running out of rice — and farmers to grow it
An ongoing shortage of rice has resulted in rising prices for Japan's main food staple.
Nikkei plunges in third-biggest daily loss ever amid Trump tariff concerns
Pedestrians stand in front of an electronic board showing the numbers of the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in the Japanese capital on Monday.
Ride-hailing services spreading in Japan
Vehicles used for ride-hailing services in the city of Kiryu, in Gunma Prefecture
Japan responds to Trump's tariffs with a polite phone call and request
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a joint press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Feb. 7.
‘Let’s make it practical’: NATO chief eyes greater defense-industrial ties with Japan
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte plans to visit Japan on Tuesday and Wednesday — his first to the Indo-Pacific region since taking office in October, as he seeks to implement lessons from the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Tottori takes a bold leap forward in the arts
The city of Kurayoshi in Tottori Prefecture celebrated the opening of its public art museum with festivities such as a parade that drew 1,000 revelers.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
Nintendo to launch the Switch 2 on June 5
The controllers for the Switch 2 will attach to the console magnetically rather than sliding on rails as with the original device.
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.

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An ongoing shortage of rice has resulted in rising prices for Japan's main food staple.
Why Japan is running out of rice — and farmers to grow it
By Alex K.T. Martin

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