global warming

The Japanese have for centuries celebrated the arrival of spring by sitting beneath cherry trees as their delicate blossoms open each year, but due to global warming and the impact of rising temperatures in cities caused by vehicle emissions, air conditioning units and other forms of pollution, the trees are blooming earlier every year.

With many of the world’s scientists and politicians converging on Copenhagen this week, this is an important time for the people of the world to carefully consider the issues related to ‘climate change’. Here are some of my own thoughts on the issue.

Recently (well, more than a month ago), there was a debate on a popular television program AsaNama on the existence of global warming. I’d like to write a little bit on what I felt watching this debate. Couple of the scientists (Emori and Maruyama) also participated in the infamous JSER (Japan Society of Energy and Resources) debate which featured four skeptics...

Japan is considered the world's No. 1 importer of polar bear products, with items such as furs and rugs widely sold on the Internet.

But with the bears at risk due to climate change and the U.S. government making moves to protect them, Japan could become a target of criticism for its lax policy.

China, the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, wants consumer countries to take responsibility for the carbon emissions generated in the manufacture of goods, not the producer countries that export them.

Rising sea levels caused by global warming could result in catastrophic flooding of key coastal cities around the world, including Osaka, Kobe, Shanghai, Mumbai and New York, a new U.N. report warns. The latest State of the World’s Cities report, compiled by the U.N.

Professor Kunihiko Takeda, Ph.D., vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University and one of the world's leading authorities on both uranium enrichment and recycling, is again challenging the establishment... The recycling establishment.