New York Times climate and environment reporter | Kobe native, Harlem transplant | I also tweet about Japan | ニューヨーク・タイムズ記者 地球温暖化・環境問題 担当
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Did you know that the recycling symbol ♻️ doesn’t necessarily mean that something’s recyclable?
Test your knowledge with our plastic garbage-sorting game! Then read on for an explainer on how we got into this mess — and what we can do to solve it nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
After almost a decade of talks, the nations have committed to drastically lower emissions of planet-warming gases from the world's planes by 2050, a milestone in efforts to ease the climate effects of a fast-growing sector. My latest nytimes.com/2022/10/07/clima…
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South Asia’s annual monsoon brings life-giving water to nearly a quarter of humanity.
But climate change is making the monsoon more erratic, less dependable and even dangerous, with more violent rainfall as well as worsening dry spells.
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Scientists are modeling the path of the plume of methane gas from the pipeline leaks caused by explosions -- highlighting the work of @ICOS_RI nytimes.com/live/2022/09/30/…
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People like small pickup trucks? Wait till y'all find out about kei trucks. Check out this old article from @HirokoTabuchi.
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NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8…
Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people.
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Oil industry executives downplayed their companies’ own public messages about efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and weakened industry-wide commitments to push for climate policies, documents obtained by congressional investigators show. nyti.ms/3xo9k7u
Devastated by the attack on the writer, Salman Rushdie. I attended a lecture he gave at Oxford in 2019, and here are from my notes..
Also remembering Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses, who was found stabbed to death at his university in 1991 — 2 years after Iran issued the fatwah. The killer was never found. archive.nytimes.com/www.nyti…
Wildfires prompted the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to cancel an open-air performance of The Tempest. Heat and smoke damaged the throat of Pearl Jam's lead singer. How Summer Stages Are Threatened by Climate Change: nytimes.com/2022/08/11/arts/…
The UNDP, of the world’s largest sustainable development agencies, has worked with energy companies to quash opposition and keep oil flowing, even in sensitive areas. A must-read investigation from @HurtesSarah @julieturkewitz nytimes.com/2022/08/10/world…
“Our world can get all its energy needs from renewables at a price below that of fossil fuels. When we first proposed this, we were ridiculed, but this paper shows our ideas are now scientific mainstream" — @AukeHoekstra
FINALLY!
Our paper on 100%RE is out!
It traces the history and fast growth of the scientific field that models 100% renewable energy: no fossil or nuclear needed.
Hundreds of peer reviewed studies now claim 100%RE is possible worldwide against low cost!
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Issey Miyake, the Japanese designer whose name became a global byword for cutting-edge fashion in the 1980s, died on Aug. 5. He was 84.
Best known for his origami-like designs, he also produced Steve Jobs’s signature black turtleneck.
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Joe Manchin's backing of the Senate's historic climate bill came with big benefits for a pipeline industry that has become one of his major donors. nyti.ms/3JRd2vv
The Secret Airstrips Behind Brazil’s Illegal Mining Crisis — phenomenal visual investigation by @manuelaandreoni @BlackiLi @DeniseDSLu nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
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A reminder that the Brooklyn Public Library, one of the largest library systems in the country, is offering free digital cards to teens across the country! This gives them full access to the collection of ebooks and audiobooks.
Libraries across the country are facing an increasingly coordinated effort to remove books from shelves. With #BooksUnbanned, BPL seeks to combat the negative impact of censorship. Learn more at bklynlib.org/books-unbanned
Take a moment out of your busy day to read this magical story on the secrets of fungi by @SominiSengupta nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
