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Rosie Fordham of Australia competes in the women's 4 x 7.5 kilometer cross-country skiing relay during the Milano Cortina Olympics on Saturday in Lago, Italy.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
Feb 15, 2026
Is global warming dooming snow sports and the Winter Olympics?
Since the 1970s, mean snow depth across the Alps has declined by over 8% per decade and the snow season is up to 34 days shorter below 2,000 meters.
Employees work on an electric vehicle production line at a factory in China
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Feb 14, 2026
As Trump shreds climate rules, China’s emissions start to fall
This week’s major climate news played out on a split screen with the world’s two superpowers signaling different paths for the future.
The coal industry celebrated the announced U.S. reversal on climate action, saying it would help stave off retirements of aging coal-fired power plants.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Feb 13, 2026
Trump revokes basis of U.S. climate regulation and ends vehicle emission standards
It is the most sweeping climate policy rollback to date, after a string of regulatory cuts and other moves intended to unfetter fossil fuel development.
A model by the Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field explaining the process for generating hydrogen.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy / OUR PLANET
Feb 2, 2026
Why renewable powerhouse Fukushima is also pursuing hydrogen
Since the nuclear disaster, Fukushima has become a powerhouse for renewables in Japan. But the prefecture is still pursuing hydrogen as a key cog for the energy transition.
A solar farm in Nakai, Kanagawa Prefecture, in March 2016. Japan gets about a tenth of its electricity from solar panels despite having nearly no domestic production of photovoltaics (PVs).
ENVIRONMENT / Energy / OUR PLANET
Jan 18, 2026
Beijing row highlights need for Japan to reduce cleantech dependence on China
To reach net zero, Japan will need to rapidly expand renewables, but its solar manufacturing capacity is virtually non-existent despite it being a pioneer of the technology.
A Honda CR-V in California. Honda is planning to increase production of cheaper gasoline-fueled vehicles in the United States this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 15, 2026
Honda to boost output of cheaper, less fuel-efficient vehicles in U.S.
The move comes as many American car-buyers are struggling to afford new-car prices that average nearly $50,000.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Dec. 17. Over her short two months in office, Takaichi has emphasized the restart of aging nuclear reactors and developing futuristic — but not yet commercially viable — technologies like nuclear fusion.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy / OUR PLANET
Jan 4, 2026
With a focus on nuclear power, Takaichi’s energy policy takes shape
As she settles into the nation’s top office, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s energy policy is quickly coming into focus and nuclear power stands at the forefront.
In Japan, key stakeholders, including corporations and industry groups, are working to make ESG investment a pillar of sustainable growth despite global headwinds.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 31, 2025
Japan strives to sustain ESG investment amid global retreat
Corporations and industry groups are pushing back against the global headwinds and working to make ESG investment a pillar of sustainable growth.
In 2025, overlooked climate challenges included the warming effects of reduced pollution, stalled progress in green hydrogen and rising financing costs for renewables.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2025
Here’s the bad climate news you missed this year
The current renewables boom will need to prove those fossil plants superfluous, and quickly, if we want to stop them getting built.
Workers assemble new Nissan Leaf electric vehicles at a production facility in Sunderland, England, on Dec. 16.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2025
The positive climate news you may have missed this year
Much climate news is gloomy, but there are positive developments all the time — so many, in fact, that it’s easy to miss some of the things that have been happening.
An Eiffel tower replica statue is on display outside the United Nations COP21 climate summit in Paris in November 2015.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2025
Ten years after the Paris agreement, let’s redouble efforts
France has reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% compared with 1990, including 20% between 2017 and 2024.
A container ship departs the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai. U.S. President Donald Trump's trade wars only serve to drive up global emissions.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 24, 2025
Trade wars destroy the planet
If trade tensions reshape industrial structures in China and the U.S., the shift toward more energy-intensive activities will raise the weighted-average carbon intensity.
This year Japan sweltered through its hottest summer since records began. Hundreds of people across Japan filed the country's first lawsuit against the central government on Thursday, seeking damages over what they call “unconstitutional” inaction on climate change.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 18, 2025
Hundreds sue Japan’s central government over ‘unconstitutional’ climate inaction
The 450 plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit say the country’s “grossly inadequate” response jeopardizes health and livelihoods.
Yamaha Motor President Motofumi Shitara said Wednesday that the company plans to release a 125 cc moped model that meets new emissions rules in March.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 18, 2025
Yamaha to launch 125 cc moped that meets new emissions regulations
Companies are working to develop new models due to the difficulty of existing mopeds with engine displacements of up to 50 cc to conform to the new rules.
ANA Holdings are equipping its commercial jets with sensors to track gases like carbon dioxide.
JAPAN
Dec 17, 2025
Passenger jets are Japan’s newest tool to track climate change
ANA and the nation’s space agency are accelerating efforts to use sensors mounted on commercial jets to improve the monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions.
Smoke rises from chimneys at a factory in the port of Dunkirk, France, in January 2023. In the U.S., dozens of industries share a ready-made climate solution: electrification.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Dec 17, 2025
New roadmap shows how to cut a surprisingly big source of emissions
Favorable tax treatment under U.S. President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act could encourage industries to upgrade to clean technologies such as electrification.
The sun rises by the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris on July 1 as the city is on red alert for high temperatures. Global temperatures have been stoked ever higher by humanity's emissions of planet-heating gases, largely from fossil fuels burned on a massive scale since the industrial revolution.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Dec 9, 2025
2025 on track to tie as second-hottest year on record, EU monitor says
Scientists warn rising temperatures, even incremental ones, are already destabilizing the climate and making storms, floods and other disasters fiercer and more frequent.
U.S. President Donald Trump announces his administration will ease fuel economy standards, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Wednesday. A reduction to the standards, proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, would cost Americans an additional $185 billion in fuel and increase carbon dioxide emissions by about 5%.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 4, 2025
Trump proposes easing fuel rules, in boost for automakers, despite emissions
A reduction to the standards, proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, would cost Americans more for fuel and increase carbon dioxide emissions by about 5%.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce in Calgary, Alberta, on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 29, 2025
Canadian PM under fire for alleged climate U-turn
Mark Carney’s most dramatic move came on Thursday, when he struck a deal with conservative-led energy-producing Alberta to advance a new oil pipeline.
COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago (center) hugs Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva after her speech at the COP30 U.N. climate change conference in Belem, Brazil, on Saturday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 23, 2025
COP30 climate deal a ‘win’ for global unity but fossil fuels untouched
Nearly 200 countries approved the deal by consensus after two weeks of exhaustive negotiations, with the notable absence of the U.S.
Uruguay federation reportedly cancels charter flight after World Cup exit
Uruguay's Jose Maria Gimenez reacts after the team's loss against Spain at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Friday.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
India’s gig workers pay the price for exposure to New Delhi’s hazardous air
Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
Chinese and Russian bombers and fighter jets stage joint patrol near Japan
A Chinese Air Force H-6 bomber is seen during a joint patrol with Russian military aircraft on Saturday.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.
‘The colors speak for themselves’: How Japan’s chroma bible went global
“A Dictionary of Color Combinations” is meant to function as a quick-reference guide for artists, designers and anyone with a passing interest in aesthetics as a quantifiable pursuit.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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