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Heat wave continues to bake Japan
Posted by Japan Times: None Given on August 14th, 2013
Japan Times: The severe heat wave continued Tuesday to engulf wide areas of Japan, with temperatures in one western city reaching 40 degrees for the fourth day in a row, the Meteorological Agency said. The city of Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, which on Monday logged the country’s highest temperature ever at 41.0, continued to swelter with a high of 40.0. The agency said Shimanto was the first observation point to reach 40 degrees four days in a row since it started monitoring such statistics in 1875. The city...
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Climate change tack shifts to adaptation
Posted by Japan Times: None Given on June 16th, 2013
Japan Times: Efforts to curb global warming have quietly shifted as greenhouse gases inexorably rise. The conversation is no longer solely about how to save the planet by cutting carbon emissions, it is becoming more about how to save ourselves from the warming planet`s wild weather.
It was Mayor Michael Bloomberg`s recent announcement of an ambitious plan to stave off New York City`s rising seas with flood gates, levees and more that brought this transition into full focus.
After years of losing the fight...
Is geography behind sea-ice paradox?
Posted by Japan Times: None Given on October 18th, 2012
Japan Times: When sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean fell to a record-low level last month, much of the analysis in Asia and the Pacific focused on the opening of new and shorter commercial shipping routes to Europe, and increased access to Arctic offshore oil and gas resources.
These could be very positive developments for the region, especially for the energy-short trading economies of Northeast Asia led by Japan, China and South Korea.
But the dramatic decline in both the extent of Arctic sea ice and...
Japan: 240,000 evacuated amid Kyushu deluge
Posted by Japan Times: None Given on July 15th, 2012
Japan Times: Some 240,000 people from about 85,000 households in Kyushu were told to evacuate as storms that have already killed 22 people continued to dump more rain on the region Saturday, local authorities said.
To the rescue: Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers search for people swept away by floods in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, as heavy rains continued to fall over Kyushu on Saturday. KYODO
The orders were issued in four of Kyushu's seven prefectures - Fukuoka, Saga, Kumamoto and Oita. The police, meanwhile,...