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Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Nov 21, 2002
Taking the high way through life
If you were an ant, multi-limbed with a ground-hugging body, a trip across the forest floor would present you with a daunting obstacle course. Each fallen twig would be a wall to climb; each wind-blown leaf a teetering trap poised to tip and sluice rainwater; each fallen tree and its tangled branches...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Nov 7, 2002
A venerable flash in the pan
Among Japan's amazing diversity of plants that can overwhelm a visitor from overseas, there are (thankfully) some familiar forms. Astonishingly, given the literally hundreds of thousands of plant species on Earth, some here will be familiar whether you hail from North or South America, from Europe, Africa,...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 31, 2002
Birds' island havens failing whole species
Teuri-jima Island is a special place, being a legally protected breeding habitat of seabirds. It was also the main subject of a recent Japan-U.S. government-level symposium in the nearby mainland town of Haboro, Hokkaido. Shocking facts emerged from that meeting.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 17, 2002
Ticks: playing a waiting game to gorge on blood
Being in the field for several months each year in search of wildlife to study, photograph and write about may sound wonderful, and it certainly does make for an exciting life. There is a downside, though, because there's also wildlife out there looking for me. Well, not me specifically, but warm-blooded...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 3, 2002
Homing in on a sound of autumn
Thump . . . thud . . . and thump again. It's a perennial autumn sound -- the sound of falling fruit. Overripe on the branch, sometimes already rotting, apples, pears, persimmons and plums fall and burst, splattering strong-smelling juices that don't long go wasted.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Sep 19, 2002
Mind over matter and danger signals by design
Our emotions in relation to other living things are worthy of a whole lifetime of study.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Sep 5, 2002
One bat in the hand is worth flocks in the forest
Science sometimes moves forward by exceedingly small increments, yet to be involved in making one of those tiny steps can nonetheless be extremely exciting, as it was for me early this summer.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Aug 29, 2002
Prehistory still abounds in everyday life
In the course of a normal day, the word "fossil" may quite possibly never occur to you. Fossils are, however, crucial to many aspects of daily life.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Aug 15, 2002
Isolation spells survival in the Sea of Okhotsk
In penguinlike tuxedoed masses, the Tyuleni Island murres were standing in murmuring hordes, crowding the rock ledges of their remote breeding colony off the east coast of Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Aug 1, 2002
A camphor by any other name
Growing among the the laurel-dominated evergreen forests of central and southern Japan is a tree with a host of names and a host of uses.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jul 18, 2002
Trees' wondrous ways of turning over a new leaf
Now, at the height of summer, when the fresh green of the spring leaves has darkened, I will start this week's column with a question: "Why is it that northern Japan's Mongolian oak and Europe's common beech retain their rustling brown leaves all winter, while sharing their temperate forest habitat mainly...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jul 4, 2002
Welcome to the world's most successful societies
Ants have an amazing lineage. They have been around for at least 100 million years, since the middle of the Cretaceous Period, and for at least the last 50 million years they have been among the most abundant of all insects. We think we're successful? Our population has recently topped 6 billion, but...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jun 20, 2002
The ants' workaday world is wherever you look
Despite the name, I didn't see any ants in Antarctica, though it's the only place I've been that I haven't seen any. Everywhere else, from Alaska to Australia, from Norway to New Zealand, I have encountered them. Ants are an extraordinarily numerous and successful group.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jun 6, 2002
Don't go making a monkey of yourself, man
Monkey, primate, ape; the terms slip so easily off the tongue, but just what do they mean, and how do they differ? And what does it mean to talk of New World and Old World monkeys?
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
May 30, 2002
Puzzling over monkeys' many ways of life
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Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
May 16, 2002
Summer's serenaders of the moon, sun and stars
Summer really is here. It has spread north so rapidly that June- and July-like temperatures were reported in Hokkaido even before the end of April. The cherry blossom wave rushed northward, too, at such a pace it was as if it were trying to take a running jump at Sakhalin.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
May 2, 2002
20 years of writing on the wild side
The biological exuberance of the equatorial region is staggering to behold. Walking through a temperate forest (as one might find in many areas of northern Japan, the northern United States or across much of central Europe), it is commonplace to have a clear view for hundreds of meters -- even to the...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Apr 18, 2002
Back when the Badlands were lush
Drive west from Calgary and rolling foothills dotted with aspen and white spruce rise steadily toward the mighty ridgeback of the Rockies, which dominate the view in this part of Canada's Alberta Province.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Apr 4, 2002
'Park on a possum' is far easier said than done
Back in 1848, some bright spark had a "good" idea. Let's import common brush-tailed possums from Australia and fur-farm them in New Zealand, they thought. They followed up on that idea with action -- action that New Zealand's environment has been paying for ever since.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Mar 21, 2002
Confused responses cloud vital issues of ecology
Sept. 11, 2001, a date now etched indelibly in our memories, provided an awfully pertinent lesson in human actions and human responses. Shock, fury, anger; all were reasonable, acceptable emotional responses to horrendous acts of terrorism.
Bloodied Trump survives assassination attempt at political rally
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is surrounded and evacuated by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Trump was rushed off stage at the rally after shots rang out.
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.
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.
Amid same-sex marriage ban, LGBTQ couples opt for 'photo weddings'
A lesbian couple, consisting of a 35-year-old woman (left) and 40-year-old woman, cover their faces with bouquets as they pose for wedding photos in Yokohama on Nov. 1.
China and Russia conduct joint Pacific military patrol
The Russian corvette Gromkiy enters the Chinese port of Zhanjiang as part of a joint China-Russia naval exercise on Saturday.
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.
She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.
How to tweak your diet when temperatures spike
Most people think of hydration as a strictly liquid-based concept, but eating foods with high water content is an essential part of making it through a Japanese summer unscathed.

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