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OCEANS 4

Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 3, 2023
For toothed whales, sound production is all in the nose
Echolocating toothed whales make the loudest sounds in the animal kingdom by forcing highly pressurized air past structures called phonic lips in their nose.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2023
That mystery orb on a Japanese beach? It was just a buoy.
A giant metal ball that washed up on a Japanese beach this week drew suspicion from authorities and wonder from the public. But the truth was rather mundane.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 21, 2023
Why the world needs a deal to protect its oceans
The ocean supports a huge range of biodiversity, including potentially millions of species that humans have not discovered yet.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 19, 2023
Concerns and impatience over mining the world's seabeds
Opponents say the International Seabed Authority has contradictory missions: protect the sea floor while also managing companies determined to extract resources from it.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2023
The $100 billion offshore wind industry has a whale problem
Nearly two dozen whales have died along the U.S. Atlantic coast, and an unlikely coalition says that offshore wind is the culprit.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 17, 2023
Impacts of sea level rise and fragility of ice sheets underestimated, research shows
Melting ice that could lift global oceans by meters will likely crumble with another half degree Celsius of warming, and satellite data for many coastal areas has been misinterpreted.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 16, 2023
Warm water melts weak spots on Antarctica's 'Doomsday glacier,' scientists say
The glacier represents more than half a meter of global sea level rise potential, and could destabilize neighboring glaciers that have the potential to cause a further 3 meter rise.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2023
Rising seas threaten exodus on 'biblical' scale, warns U.N. head
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said countries such as Bangladesh, China, India and the Netherlands are all in danger.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2023
Deep-sea mining noise pollution threatens whales, study finds
Scientists warned that commercial-scale extraction of valuable minerals from the ocean floor would damage habitats and interfere with the way cetaceans communicate.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2023
Features of Pacific seabed formation named after Godzilla body parts
Such oceanic core complexes are formed when the mantle beneath the Earth's crust is exposed on the seafloor as a result of fault displacement.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2023
Micronesia president says 'transparency' has eased Fukushima water concerns
David Panuelo's remarks stood in contrast to those he gave the U.N. General Assembly in September of his 'gravest concern' regarding Tokyo's plans.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2023
The British offshore wind firm hoping to win big on Japan’s 'trump card'
As more overseas companies arrive in the Asia Pacific in search of opportunities in the renewables industry, one U.K. firm sees Japan as the ideal base for regional growth.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 1, 2023
U.S. Navy struggling to counter China's rise as warship repairs limit time at sea
The problems included increased delays in depot maintenance and 'growing numbers of cannibalizations,” according to a congressional assessment.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 23, 2023
Transparent clams discovered off Hokkaido offer window into mystery of the deep sea
For insight into the vast sunless world thriving in some of the Earth's deepest waters, look no further than these three recently discovered clam species off the coast of Japan.
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2023
Japan divers capture rare footage of live giant squid
Giant squid are known to live in the waters around Japan, and occasionally wash ashore.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2023
Dead sardines pile up on Hokkaido shores, but no one's sure why
In one town, it's estimated that there were around 20 tons of the dead fish.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 15, 2023
One year on, massive Tonga eruption still reverberates across Pacific Rim
The blast underscored the risks to other nations in the 'Ring of Fire,' particularly Japan, and the importance of gathering precise data to understand just how big those threats might be.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 13, 2023
Whale spotted in Osaka's Yodo River confirmed dead
Workers from Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan had approached the large mammal to check if it was breathing, while a researcher also said the whale's blowhole had been submerged since Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 12, 2023
Scientists sound alarm as ocean temperatures hit new record
Climate change has increased surface temperatures across the planet, leading to atmospheric instability and amplifying extreme weather events such as storms.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 11, 2023
Japan needs to reassure neighbors on release and safety of treated radioactive water
Scientists have concluded that the plan to discharge the ALPS-treated water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the ocean is the most realistic solution to the storage issue.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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