and Gordon Hisashi Sato, winners of the 2005 Blue Planet Prize, congratulate each other Wednesday at a news conference in Tokyo.

The Asahi Glass Foundation gave Briton Nicholas Shackleton, professor emeritus of the department of earth sciences at the University of Cambridge, and American Gordon Hisashi Sato, director emeritus of the W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center in the United States, 50 million yen prizes for their work on the environment.

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The Tokyo Hydrogen Museum in the capital's Koto Ward on Thursday. The capital is targeting the “full use” of hydrogen produced using renewable energy “in all fields” by 2050 as part of its decarbonization drive.
Tokyo's climate goals rely on a fuel that is falling out of favor

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Akira Oishi (left) and Shinichi Okanobori have taken on the responsibility of surveying the flora and fauna of Mount Tenran and Mount Tonosu in Saitama Prefecture.
Inside Japan's 100-year project to monitor its deteriorating biodiversity