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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2015
Building global climate trust is needed now
In less than 80 days, world leaders will have the opportunity to strike a once-in-a-generation agreement in the fight against climate change. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December could mark a turning point in world history: unanimous recognition of the need to act to prevent...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 26, 2015
China's climate actions turn the tables on American deniers
Donald Trump was succinct when asked how the United States should respond to climate change. "It's not a big problem at all," the leader in opinion polls for the Republican presidential nomination told a radio talk show host on Monday. "If you look at China, they're doing nothing about it."
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 24, 2015
French prime minister to visit Japan early October, seek cooperation on climate conference
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls will visit Japan early next month to seek Tokyo's cooperation toward a Paris conference on climate change later in the year, the French Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 24, 2015
Francis at White House lauds Obama, embraces GOP taboos: environment, poverty, immigration
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the United States to help tackle climate change and touched on other divisive U.S. political issues such as immigration and economic inequality on his first visit to the world's richest nation.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2015
Securing a sustainable future
The decisions taken this year, at the Sustainable Development Goals summit and at the climate conference in Paris in December, will have a lasting impact on our planet's future.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2015
Pope Francis remains flamboyantly fact-free
The pope's ideas would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak — if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2015
Tokyo at high risk of devastating floods, experts say
It's just a matter of time before Tokyo is struck by the same magnitude of flooding that devastated parts of the northern Kanto region this month.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 18, 2015
Turn deluge of climate change information into usable stream, experts say
For a city planner looking to make a new building flood-proof, or a farmer interested in trying out new drought-resistant seed, there is no shortage of climate change information available.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 18, 2015
Climate change, El Nino make hottest year on record likely
An El Nino in the Pacific Ocean and rising temperatures caused by climate change have put the world on an almost irreversible path to its warmest year on records dating back to 1880.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 16, 2015
In warming Arctic, mosquitoes may multiply
Rising temperatures in the Arctic may be good news for mosquitoes, which prosper with warmer weather.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 12, 2015
Burning all fossil fuels could thaw Antarctica, raise sea level almost 60 meters: study
Burning all the world's fossil fuel reserves could thaw the entire Antarctic ice sheet and push up sea levels by nearly 60 meters (200 feet), an international study said on Friday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 11, 2015
Southern Ocean soaking up more greenhouse gases, limiting warming
The vast Southern Ocean around Antarctica has started to soak up more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in recent years, helping to limit climate change, after signs its uptake had stalled, a study said on Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2015
Who will suffer most from climate change?
When it comes to climate change, it is the world's poorest farmers who will suffer the most.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2015
Japan, six other nations' emissions-cut pledges 'inadequate,' report says
A group of scientists monitoring climate action said Wednesday that the emissions-cut pledges presented so far by countries will fail to put the world on the path to limit global warming to below an international target, with the submissions by seven countries including Japan judged as "inadequate."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 1, 2015
Japanese zoologist's coral findings inspire Taiwanese films
It was 1939, and Siro Kawaguti, a Japanese zoology lecturer at Taihoku Imperial University (now National Taiwan University), was curious about the thick, pinkish slicks he saw floating on the surface of the sea off the coast of Taiwan. So he took samples back to his lab for examination.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 1, 2015
Obama urges reaching climate deal in Paris 'while we still can'
President Barack Obama said on Monday that world leaders must agree to cut carbon emissions at a U.N. summit in December because the climate is changing faster than efforts to curb global warming.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 30, 2015
Europe fails to meet recycling goals for electronics
Only a third of Europe's electronic waste is properly recycled, with vast numbers of cellphones, computers and televisions illegally traded or dumped, a study led by the United Nations and Interpol said on Sunday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 14, 2015
Severe 'food shocks' more likely due to extreme weather, experts predict
Extreme weather such as intense storms, droughts and heat waves will cause more frequent and severe food shortages as the global climate and food supply systems change, British and American experts warned Friday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 14, 2015
Fifteen U.S. states seek to block EPA carbon rule
Fifteen state attorneys general petitioned a federal court in Washington on Thursday to block new U.S. rules to curb carbon emissions from power plants, in the first of several expected legal challenges to the Obama administration measure.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2015
Curbing global warming: mission impossible?
There is a 'mission impossible' quality to curbing global warming, though few say it so openly. The dependence of economic growth on fossil fules seems to strong to overcome.
Cutting ties with JCP not easy for CDP despite Renho's defeat
When Renho (center) announced her candidacy for the Tokyo gubernatorial election on May 27, the head of the Japanese Communist Party's secretariat, Akira Koike (far left), was also in attendance.
Trump's VP pick signals stronger focus on China
Former U.S. President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to his vice presidential pick, Sen. J.D. Vance, during the second day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday.
Japan’s minimum wage might not budge much if corporate fears prevail
Unionists hold a rally in Tokyo in April. Households' real cash earnings have been falling year on year for more than two years, with the weakening of the yen making the situation only more difficult as prices of imported goods increase rapidly.
Trump says Taiwan should pay for defense, sending TSMC stock down
Shares in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chipmaker and a major Apple and Nvidia supplier, closed 2.4% lower on Wednesday.
Three novelists named for Akutagawa and Naoki awards
Naoki Prize winner Michi Ichiho (left), and Akutagawa Prize winners Sanzo K. Matsunaga (center) and Aki Asahina pose with their award-winning books at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.
After Tokyo Olympic disappointment, Nadeshiko Japan look for redemption
Japan's Hikaru Kitagawa dribbles past a defender during an Olympic qualifying match against North Korea at National Stadium in Tokyo in February.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
United States Secret Service Counter Snipers stand guard on a rooftop during a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in 2020.
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
Think air conditioning is a requirement for a Tokyo summer? Think again.

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