Environment
- Canada, Japan, Environment, Business, Oil and gas companies, World news, Energy, Energy industry, South Korea, Fossil fuels
World’s biggest economies pumping billions into fossil fuels in poor nations
G20 countries spent $142bn in three years to expand operations despite a G7 pledge to stop doing so, study fin…
- Japan, Environment, Hawaii, Marine life, Climate crisis, Animals, Wildlife, US news, World news, Asia Pacific, California, Americas
Blue, mysterious and arriving by the millions: the alien-like creatures blanketing US beaches
Masses of ephemeral organisms known as ‘by-the-wind sailors’ wash up in a ‘blue tide’ on the west coast most y…
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Experience: I’m a world champion litter-picker
The competition was intense. At one point, the members of another team came over to us and tried to pick rubbi…
- Air pollution, London, Airline emissions, Dubai, Heathrow airport, Japan, Environment, Airline industry, Climate crisis, Air transport, Pollution, UK news
London is city most exposed to air pollution from aviation, global study finds
Six airports put UK capital ahead of Tokyo and Dubai, with Heathrow second-worst global airport for climate im…
- Satellites, Japan, Environment, SpaceX, World news, Asia Pacific, Space, Science, International Space Station
Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution
The environmentally friendly LignaSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful al…
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Killer whales trapped in drift ice off Japan’s Hokkaido coast escape
Pod of orcas in north Japan freed themselves as gaps between the ice grew, officials sayA pod of killer whales…
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Reinventing the eel: first lab-grown eel meat revealed
Wild freshwater eels are at risk of extinction due to overfishing but their meat can now be cultivated from ce…
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‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown
The sardines and mackerel were found floating on the surface of the sea near the fishing port of Hakodate in H…
- Cop28, Japan, Environment, Australia news, Climate crisis, Australian politics, Coal, Greenhouse gas emissions, Asia Pacific, Gas, Fossil fuels
Australia urged not to rely on ‘drug dealer’s defence’ for gas exports and help wean Japan off fossil fuels
Diplomats for Climate group says if government wants to use that defence ‘it needs to be the dealer who takes …
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Bear attacks in Japan hit record high as hunger forces some to delay hibernation
Six people have been killed and more than 200 injured since April, with warnings of more to come during winter…
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World’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor launched in Japan
Joint project with EU involves more than 500 scientists and engineers and more than 70 companiesThe world’s bi…
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Japan’s haiku poets lost for words as climate crisis disrupts seasons
The rhythms of the natural world have informed countless haiku in the centuries since Bashō wrote the Narrow R…
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Sharp rise in bear attacks in Japan as they struggle to find food
Amid lack of acorns and beechnuts in natural habitats, bears have injured 158 people and killed two since Apri…
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Fukushima nuclear plant workers sent to hospital after being splashed with tainted water
The operator Tepco says the workers came in contact with the wastewater when a hose came off accidentally and …
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Eight of the world’s most amazing trees – from the Major Oak to the Lone Cypress
Spectacular ancient trees stir deep feelings, as the felling of Sycamore Gap showed. Here are more noble speci…
- Fukushima, Japan, Environment, Japan disaster, Nuclear power, Nuclear waste, Waste, World news, Asia Pacific, Energy, China
Japan to release second batch of wastewater from Fukushima nuclear plant next week
UN-approved release to go ahead despite China’s ban on all Japanese sea imports following first batchJapan wil…
- Japan, Environment, Endangered species, Conservation, Climate crisis, Animals, Wildlife, World news, Asia Pacific
Brown bear cubs in Japan die of starvation amid salmon shortage
Experts blame rising sea temperatures caused by climate crisis for cub deaths at Unesco heritage siteAs many a…
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China drastically cuts seafood imports from Japan in wake of Fukushima water release
Imports fell by 67% in August from the same month a year earlier, to about ¥3bn ($20.2m)Chinese seafood import…
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Japan swelters through ‘abnormal’ autumn, with warnings of more heat to come
After experiencing a record-breaking number of ‘extremely hot’ days in summer, the unusually high temperatures…
- Fukushima, Japan, Environment, Japan disaster, Nuclear power, Nuclear waste, World news, Asia Pacific, Energy, China
State-backed disinformation fuelling anger in China over Fukushima water
Reports of abusive behaviour towards Japanese citizens in China in response to wastewater release at nuclear s…