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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 11, 2015
Investors need to get real about climate change
The threat to food and migration will wreak havoc with economic trends, stock values and interest rates.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 11, 2015
Satellite monitoring of greenhouse gases is new space race
Scientists from the United States, Japan and China are racing to perfect satellite technology that could one day measure greenhouse gas emissions from space, potentially transforming the winner into the world's first climate cop.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2015
China, India can drive a renewable revolution
Forget climate change — it just makes economic sense for China and India to embrace renewable energy sources.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / ANALYSIS
Dec 9, 2015
'Monster' El Nino could usher in decade of more and stronger events
In Buffalo, New York, it hasn't snowed yet this year. A Duluth, Minnesota, newspaper reported that the temperature was 40 degrees above zero, not below. And in Miami, beachgoers are staying indoors during what's already the third-wettest December in local history. What's going on with the weather?
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 8, 2015
Once a fixture, climate skeptics say they are being stifled at Paris summit
To be a climate change skeptic in Paris this week means facing heavy odds.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 3, 2015
Climate talks nations close in on five-year review of pledged carbon cuts
Climate negotiators in Paris are drawing close to resolving one of the sticking points for a breakthrough emissions pact by favoring a five-year review period on promised greenhouse gas cuts, a top official said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2015
Pragmatism in climate policy
The top-down approach on display at the Paris climate-change summit is being discarded in favor of a bottom-up model where countries act voluntarily on their own to curb emissions.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2015
In Maldives, politics, greed trump climate change
Few places are as threatened by climate change as the Maldives, but the current regime, which took over in a coup, is more interested in selling oil-drilling licenses than in saving the nation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 1, 2015
A lotta hot air: Loquacious leaders make for a long day at climate summit
Clearly His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco is unaccustomed to being told to stop talking.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 1, 2015
Swiss solar plane crew raises $20 million needed to resume record solo circumnavigation
The Swiss solar-powered plane whose record-setting, round-the-world flight was put on hold in July by weather and battery trouble has raised the $20 million it needs to finish the trip, co-founder and pilot Andre Borschberg said on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 1, 2015
Gates, fellow billionaires look to plow $2 billion into clean energy initiatives
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, led a group of philanthropists in vowing to plow $2 billion into clean energy through personal investments and a new fund to be set up next year.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Nov 30, 2015
Smog chokes Chinese, Indian capitals as climate talks begin
The capitals of the world's two most populous nations, China and India, were blanketed in hazardous, choking smog Monday as climate change talks began in Paris, where leaders of both countries are among the participants.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 30, 2015
Hundreds of thousands across the globe join 'No Planet B' climate protests on eve of key summit
More than half a million people from Australia to Paraguay joined the biggest day of climate change activism in history on Sunday, telling world leaders gathering for a summit in Paris there is "No Planet B" in the fight against global warming.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 16, 2015
Ban will visit North Korea this week, may met Kim, Yonhap reports
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will visit Pyongyang this week and may meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Yonhap News reported, citing a U.N. official it did not identify.

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