Commentary / Japan Feb 18, 2019
Japan's opportunity to take a leadership role on climate change
by Phyllis Genther Yoshida
The nation can lead by demonstrating how to decouple economic and emissions growth.
NEWSWORTHY
World / Science & Health Feb 12, 2019
Global 'catastrophic collapse' of insects threatening pollination and food chains: study
Nearly half of all insect species worldwide are in rapid decline and a third could disappear altogether, according to a study warning of dire consequences for crop pollination and natural food chains. "Unless we change our way of producing food, insects as a whole will ...
World / Science & Health Feb 5, 2019
Two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2100, study warns
Two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers, the world's "Third Pole," could melt by 2100 if global emissions are not sharply reduced, scientists warned in a major new study issued Monday. Even if the most ambitious Paris climate agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius ...
World / Science & Health Jan 23, 2019
Greenland's melting ice, which causes sea levels to rise, disappeared four times faster in 2013 than in 2003 and is noticeable across the Arctic island, not just on glaciers, researchers warned on Tuesday. "While 111 cubic kilometres of ice disappeared per year in 2003, 10 ...
Commentary / World Jan 22, 2019
An optimist's guide to climate change
by Lynn Scarlett
It's still possible to deliver a sustainable future for both people and the planet.
World Jan 22, 2019
Scientists warn of climate 'time bomb' for world's groundwater
Future generations face an environmental "time bomb" as the world's groundwater systems take decades to respond to the present day impact of climate change, scientists warned on Monday. Found underground in cracks in soil, sand and rock, groundwater is the largest usable source of freshwater ...
World / Science & Health Jan 17, 2019
Warming and deforestation threatening coffee species, including Ethiopia's Arabica, scientists warn
Climate change and deforestation are putting more than half the world's wild coffee species at risk of extinction, including the popular commercial coffees Arabica and Robusta, scientists warned on Wednesday. Research published by experts at Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew found that current conservation ...
Editorials Dec 17, 2018
Japan needs to put together a meaningful strategy that contributes to the transition to a post-carbon society.
Commentary / World Dec 17, 2018
A climate-friendly global financial system
by Ma Jun and Caio Koch-Weser
Governments worldwide must do what it takes to ensure that both public and private financial flows support the climate agenda.
World / Science & Health Dec 14, 2018
Nations 'face extinction' without instant emissions curbs as climate talks limp toward close
Dozens of nations threatened with catastrophe from unchecked climate change warned Thursday they "face extinction" without immediate action to rein in mankind's emissions, as U.N. climate talks limped toward their conclusion. Representatives from nearly 200 nations are locked in negotiations in Poland over how to ...
World / Science & Health Dec 12, 2018
Arctic's record warming driving 'broad change' in environment, U.S. agency study says
Global warming is heating the Arctic at a record pace, driving broad environmental changes across the planet, including extreme storms in the United States and Europe, a major U.S. scientific report said Tuesday. Persistent heat records have assaulted the fragile Arctic for each of the ...
World / Science & Health Dec 11, 2018
Average world temperatures are on track to far exceed the central goal set in the 2015 Paris agreement on limiting global warming, a study showed on Tuesday. But the overshoot by the end of this century could be slightly less severe than previously expected thanks ...