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WARMING

COMMENTARY / World
Jul 13, 2015
Climate change conference's smoke and mirrors
The story that the producers of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference will ask viewers to believe relies on technologies that are no more effective than smoke and mirrors.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 10, 2015
Global warming shrinking presence of vital bumblebees in Northern Hemisphere
Global warming is shrinking the terrain where bumblebees live in North America and Europe, with these vital pollinators departing the southernmost and hottest parts of their ranges while failing to move north into cooler climes, scientists say.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2015
Why the pope cares about the Earth
By invoking St. Francis in his encyclical on the environment, the pope calls us to remember the fundamental interdependence of all life.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
May 23, 2015
Pacific forecasters agree El Nino has arrived
Three of the big meteorological agencies on the Pacific Rim now agree: El Nino has come.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
May 16, 2015
Language of science key to wisdom
Today I'm going to try something a little different — at first, anyway. First, let me tell you a bit about my job.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2015
Canada's climate change conundrum
A recent announcement that Canada won't match U.S. emission-reduction targets offers a fresh look at Canadians' enduring bipolarity on climate change.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 24, 2015
For the sake of the future, make 2015 Earth Year
Just as we demand that our governments address risks associated with terrorism or epidemics, we should put concerted pressure on them to act now to preserve our natural environment and curb climate change.
EDITORIALS
Apr 12, 2015
Get ambitious on emissions cuts
The government should aim for ambitious plans to cut Japan's emissions that would compare favorably with the targets set by other advanced economies.
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 7, 2015
A record of at least 2,250 sea lions stranded along Southern California coast so far this year
At least 2,250 California sea lions, mostly pups, have turned up starving and stranded on beaches from Santa Barbara to San Diego so far this year, more than half of them last month alone, marking the worst such crisis yet documented for the marine mammals.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 6, 2015
On the right path, China must cut coal reliance
China's recent progress in reducing emissions shows that, with the right combination of government policies, corporate initiatives, and public pressure, even the largest and most polluted countries can clean up their act.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 24, 2015
Fossil fuels must stay in ground to stop warming
Two-thirds of the world's fossil-fuel reserves must remain unburnt to hold temperature increases below dangerous levels, according to researchers at University College London.
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?
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.
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.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
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.

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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