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Shanshan: Millions told to evacuate as typhoon batters Japan
2024-08-29 in The BBCAt least four people have died after the country was hit by one of its strongest typhoons in decades.
Tagged under: Japan
Fukushima nuclear plant detects 25 tonnes of radioactive water leak
2024-08-14 by in news.cgtn.comA significant leak of 25 tonnes of radioactive water has been detected within the spent nuclear fuel cooling pool of Reactor Unit 2 at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, China Media Group reported on Tuesday.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Japan
Japan’s rice stocks drop to lowest level in decades amid tourist boom and poor crop yields
2024-07-31 in The GuardianJapan’s agriculture ministry blames shortage on tourists’ vast demand for rice and low crop yields last year
Tagged under: Japan | Food Production and Consumption | Farming | Agriculture
Tepco finishes 3rd treated water discharge of current fiscal year
2024-07-16 by in Japan TimesThe next round is expected to begin as early as this month.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Japan
Corrosion found in treated radioactive water tanks at Fukushima plant - Japan Today
2024-04-21 (or before) in japantoday.comCorrosion has been found on the inside of tanks used to store treated radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator has revealed. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc said there are no problems with the strength of the tanks, but added that some of the…
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Japan
World’s biggest economies pumping billions into fossil fuels in poor nations
2024-04-09 in The GuardianG20 countries spent $142bn in three years to expand operations despite a G7 pledge to stop doing so, study finds
Tagged under: Japan
This Is Going to Hurt: Weather Anomalies, Supply Chain Pressures and Inflation
2024-04-09 (or before) by in International Monetary FundAs climate change accelerates, the frequency and severity of extreme weather events are expected to worsen and have greater adverse consequences for ecosystems, physical infrastructure, and economic activity across the world. This paper investigates how weather anomalies affect global supply chains and inflation dynamics. Using monthly data for six large and well-diversified economies (China, the Euro area, Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States) over the period 1997-2021, we implement a structural vector autoregressive model and document that weather anomalies could disrupt supply chains and subsequently lead t...
Tagged under: Japan
13 years since Fukushima nuclear disaster - Greenpeace International
2024-03-11 (or before) in GreenpeaceGreenpeace Japan extends heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families who are still suffering the aftermath of this devastating catastrophe.
Tagged under: Japan | Nuclear Power
Historic winter heat wave hits Japan as unusual warmth hits U.S., other areas
2024-02-21 by in AxiosThe world's fourth largest economy has shattered multiple temperature records.
Tagged under: Japan
Still no end in sight for Fukushima nuke plant decommissioning work - The Mainichi
2024-01-29 (or before) in MainichiOKUMA, Fukushima -- Nearly 13 years since the triple-meltdown following the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, it is still unclear wh
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Japan
Global Average Surface Temperature Anomalies / TCC
2023-12-29 (or before) in ds.data.jma.go.jpTokyo Climate Center Home Page
Tagged under: Global Warming | Japan
Thousands of tonnes of dead fish wash ashore in Japan
2023-12-11 (or before) in riverineherald.com.auThousands of tonnes of dead sardines have washed up on a beach in northern Japan for unknown reasons, officials say.
Tagged under: Fish | Rivers | Japan
Cyclones slow down the economic growth of a country by 10 years
2023-11-25 in Interesting EngineeringResearchers have calculated the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) of tropical cyclones for the major economies of India, US, China, Taiwan, and Japan and found that it is so extreme that it stops economic development for more than 10 years.
Tagged under: Economic Growth | Japan | India
Microplastics detected in clouds hanging atop two Japanese mountains
2023-10-09 in The GuardianFindings regarding clouds above Mount Fuji and Mount Oyama highlight how microplastics are highly mobile
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Japan
Eight of the world’s most amazing trees – from the Major Oak to the Lone Cypress
2023-10-06 in The GuardianSpectacular ancient trees stir deep feelings, as the felling of Sycamore Gap showed. Here are more noble specimens, including one whose survival is a deep-rooted puzzle
Tagged under: California | Trees | Madagascar | Japan
Japan Meteorological Agency| Sea surface temperature (global)
2023-10-04 (or before) by in data.jma.go.jpWebsite provided by the Japan Meteorological Agency (the national weather service of Japan)
Tagged under: Japan
Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds | Environment News | Al Jazeera
2023-09-29 (or before) in Al JazeeraJapanese scientists have found between 6.7 and 13.9 pieces of microplastic in each litre of cloud water tested.
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Middle East | Japan
China bans Japanese seafood after Fukushima wastewater release
2023-08-24 in The GuardianWater containing radioactive tritium being pumped into Pacific via tunnel from Tepco plant, amid protests from China, South Korea and fishing communities
Tagged under: Oceans | Nuclear Power | Pacific Ocean | Fish | Japan | Activism
Climate graphic of the week: Global warming is supercharging weather events, say scientists | Financial Times
2023-07-16 (or before) in Financial TimesFlooding in US, South Korea, India and Japan and extreme heat in Europe raises concerns about pace of change
Tagged under: Climate Change | Flooding | Japan | India
‘Heaviest rain ever’ causes deadly floods and landslides in Japan
2023-07-11 in The GuardianMud engulfs houses and cars as island of Kyushu bears brunt of annual rainy season that is worsening with climate change
Tagged under: Climate Change | Cars | Japan
Toyota says solid-state battery breakthrough can halve cost and size | Financial Times
2023-07-04 (or before) in Financial TimesJapanese carmaker plans to commercialise technology in electric vehicles by 2027
Tagged under: Japan | Innovation
From fossil gas to clean tech supply chains: Five key green takeaways from Japan's G7 Summit
2023-05-23 in Business GreenThe G7 economies remained steadfast in their support for Ukraine, clean energy, and global climate goals, but delivery plans remain somewhat less clear
Tagged under: Japan
G7 pushes for an extra terawatt of solar, but falls short on coal phaseout and gas
2023-04-17 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economyG7 agree to a big increase in offshore wind and solar capacity, but fall short of coal and gas phaseouts as Japan holds out for fossil fuels.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Fossil Fuels | Japan | Wind Power
Japan Meteorological Agency|Global ocean heat content
2023-04-15 (or before) by in data.jma.go.jpWebsite provided by the Japan Meteorological Agency (the national weather service of Japan)
From Japan to Brazil: Reforesting the Amazon with the Miyawaki method
2023-01-24 in MongabayWhen Takushi Sato left Japan for Belém, Brazil, in 1971, he never imagined what he would go through. By 2000, as the manager of a timber company that shipped Brazilian wood to Japan, he was tired of being extorted by officials from IBAMA, the environmental protection agency, to get the required export documents, he recalled. […]
Tagged under: Amazon Rainforest | Brazil | Japan
‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan
2022-09-09 in The GuardianKohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English
Tagged under: Japan | Capitalism
Home Page
2022-06-25 (or before) in energy-charter-dirty-secrets.orgWhat is the Energy Charter Treaty? The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is an international agreement from the mid-1990s. Investor rights apply to 53 countries stretching from Western Europe through Central Asia to Japan, plus the EU and the European Atomic Energy Community. It grants corporations in the energy sector enormous power to sue
Tagged under: Japan
Summer swelter: Persistent heat wave breaks records, spirits
2022-06-24 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyFrom the normally chilly Russian Arctic to the traditionally sweltering American South, big swaths of the Northern Hemisphere continued to sizzle with extreme heat as the start of summer more resembled the dog days of August with parts of China and Japan setting all-time heat records Friday.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | China | Arctic | Russia | Japan
G7 countries to stop funding fossil fuel development overseas
2022-05-30 in The GuardianMinisters from world’s biggest economies reach agreement that could shift estimated $33bn a year to clean energy sources
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Germany | France | Fossil Fuels | Japan
Climate change: Is ‘blue hydrogen’ Japan’s answer to coal? - BBC News
2021-12-06 (or before) in The BBCThe Fukushima disaster turned Japan away from nuclear. A new energy source may help it quit coal.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Hydrogen | Coal | Climate Change | Japan
Environmentalists vow to block woodchip export plan in NSW Hunter region
2021-09-08 in The GuardianStartup energy firm’s bid to send up to 60,000 tonnes of woodchips to Japan for burning in power plants condemned by conservation group
Tagged under: Activism | Japan
Five million people under evacuation order in Japan as rain batters south coast - CNN
2021-08-14 (or before) by in CNNMore than 5 million residents in Japan have been ordered to evacuate their homes due to the threat of flooding and landslides, as torrential rains batter the country's southwestern tip.
Tagged under: Japan
Put Brake on Capitalism, Says Popular Marxist Book Author
2021-05-11 in nippon.comOsaka, May 11 (Jiji Press)--Kohei Saito, author of a Marxist book popular in Japan, has called for applying a…
Tagged under: Capitalism | Japan
Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since 812'
2021-03-30 in The BBCThe early peak is thought to be linked to climate change as spring temperatures rise.
Tagged under: Japan
World's top emitters a long way from aligning with climate goals | Reuters
2021-03-23 (or before) in ReutersThe world's biggest carbon-emitting companies are far from aligning with the Paris Climate Agreement, a report by the leading climate-focused investor group showed on Monday.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Japan | Food Production and Consumption | Finance | India
EDO Challenges HSBC and Barclays Over Finance for Vietnamese Coal Plant - Environmental Defenders Office
2021-03-01 in Environmental Defenders OfficeUPDATE: The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has announced it will stop funding overseas coal power projects. It comes just weeks after EDO’s Safe Climate team challenged Barclays and HSBC over their involvement in a JBIC fund, which is financing a new coal fired power plant in Vietnam. Both HSBC and Barclays publicly committed [...]Read More...
Tagged under: Coal | Japan | Finance
Japan aims for zero emissions, carbon neutral society by 2050 - PM | Reuters
2020-10-26 (or before) in ReutersJapan is aiming to cut greenhouse gases to zero by 2050 and become a carbon-neutral society, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday as he unveiled a major shift in position on climate change.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Japan
New super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster
2020-09-28 in The GuardianBreakthrough that builds on plastic-eating bugs first discovered by Japan in 2016 promises to enable full recycling
Tagged under: Japan | Recycling | Plastic | Innovation
Carbon Captured
2020-07-14 (or before) in MIT PressA comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking.Climate change threatens the planet, and yet policy responses have varied widely across nations. Some countries have undertaken ambitious programs to stave off climate disaster, others have done little, and still others have passed policies that were later rolled back. In this book, Matto Mildenberger opens the “black box” of domestic climate politics, examining policy making trajectories in several countries and offering a theoretical explanation for national differences in the ...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Legislation | Barack Obama | Japan | Carbon Capture and Storage
Fairly sharing 1.5: national fair shares of a 1.5 °C-compliant global mitigation effort - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
2020-06-10 (or before) in Springer VerlagThe problem of fairly distributing the global mitigation effort is particularly important for the 1.5 °C temperature limitation objective, due to its rapidly depleting global carbon budget. Here, we present methodology and results of the first study examining national mitigation pledges presented at the 2015 Paris climate summit, relative to equity benchmarks and 1.5 °C-compliant global mitigation. Uniquely, pertinent ethical choices were made via deliberative processes of civil society organizations, resulting in an agreed range of effort-sharing parameters. Based on this, we quantified each country’s range of fai...
Tagged under: Brazil | Economics | International Agreements | Climate Justice | Climate Change Mitigation | India | Japan
Samsung Presents Groundbreaking All-Solid-State Battery Technology to ‘Nature Energy’
2020-03-10 (or before) in Samsung Global Newsroom - All the latest news, key facts and inspiring stories about Samsung Electronics.On March 9 in London, researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Samsung R&D Institute Japan (SRJ) presented a study on
Tagged under: Batteries | Japan
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