Environment
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Survey: Only 10% of municipalities to begin sorting plastic waste within 3 yrs
Municipalities have been slow to sort plastic waste, with only 72 city governments or related entiti...
December 10, 2021
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Tokyo fishermen lament ‘endless’ stream of floating pumice stones
Floating pumice from the eruption of underwater volcano Fukutoku-Okanoba near the Ogasawara Islands ...
December 5, 2021
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Japan research team creates radioactive cesium adsorbents from pumice
There are moves to put the gathered pumice stones to use. A research team from the Kanagawa Institut...
December 5, 2021
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Ministry seeks to restrict use of lead bullets due to bird deaths
SAPPORO — The Environment Ministry intends to gradually restrict the use of lead bullets starting in...
September 28, 2021
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Swallows adopt old palace as site for respite
NARA — The site of an ancient imperial palace is also one of Japan’s largest resting places for swal...
September 27, 2021
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Rainfall increases in Greenland in threat to ice sheet
Research institutes in Japan and other countries have reported one after another on climate change i...
September 1, 2021
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Creature-filled forests registered as world natural heritage site
Just after it rained, loud birdcalls that sounded like “kyo, kyo, kyo” echoed through the deep-green...
August 24, 2021
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Japan’s 1st power system combining CO2 gases, geothermal energy in works
A major Japanese general contractor has plans to begin the nation’s first-ever power generation proj...
August 24, 2021
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Eruption of Mt. Fuji might sever Japan’s ‘major arteries’
A massive volume of lava could sever “major arteries” in Japan, according to a hazard map for a Mt. ...
July 6, 2021
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Clean energy solution seen in small modular reactors
The global trend toward decarbonization is leading to developers in Japan, the United States and Eu...
June 24, 2021
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Hiroshima: Despite being deserted, island has litter problem
FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima — An uninhabited island in the Seto Inland Sea off the coast of Hiroshima Prefec...
May 29, 2021
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Rhododendron forest dazzles visitors at botanical garden in Nagoya
Rhododendrons are in full bloom at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya’s Chikusa Ward. ...
April 19, 2021
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100 ‘pilot districts’ to aim for decarbonization by fiscal 2030 in Japan
To help realize net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the government will choose at least 100 “...
April 15, 2021
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Japan’s decision to release treated water into the sea made after careful deliberation
How to dispose of treated water has been a major barrier to decommissioning work at the Fukushima No...
April 13, 2021
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Canadian disposal sites for radioactive waste from Japan, elsewhere, were under consideration
NEW YORK — A plan to build disposal sites in Canada for radioactive waste from nuclear power plants ...
April 5, 2021
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