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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/20

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“What is worth more, art or life?”

When Soup and Mashed Potatoes Are Thrown, Can the Earth Win?

The van Gogh and Monet paintings targeted in recent climate protests were unharmed. But a debate about tactics rages.

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The richest 20 percent of people worldwide take 80 percent of the flights. The top 2 percent of frequent fliers take about 40 percent of the flights. Nations Agree to Curb Emissions From Flying by 2050

Nations Agree to Curb Emissions From Flying by 2050

The agreement, years in the making, is a milestone in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes worldwide.

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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

Nations Agree to Curb Emissions From Flying by 2050

The agreement, years in the making, is a milestone in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes worldwide.

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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.

The Monsoon Is Becoming More Extreme

South Asia’s monsoon is inextricably linked, culturally and economically, to much of Asia. Climate change is making it increasingly violent and erratic.

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Mold may be one of the most devastating, long-term and hidden costs of the increasingly humid, wet and stormy climate in the U.S. “If you don’t act right away, the mold will cover everything,” said one expert inspecting a home hit by Hurricane Ian.

After the Storm, the Mold: Warming Is Worsening Another Costly Disaster

Mold in homes is a costly crisis that often accompanies hurricanes and flooding, and climate change is amplifying the rain that feeds outbreaks.

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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

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Breaking News: Hurricane Ian made landfall near Fort Myers, Florida, as one of the most powerful storms to hit the U.S. in decades. Follow live updates.

Flooding and Power Outages Grow as Ian Moves Inland

The hurricane came ashore as one of the strongest storms ever to strike Florida and was moving across the state with damaging winds, heavy rains and storm surges that left people trapped.

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Footage from Danish Defense command showing the swirling bubbles in the Baltic Sea coming up from a leak in one of the Nord Stream pipelines.

Gas leak in the Baltic Sea

After the three gas leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the Danish Defence deployed the frigate Absalon and the pollution control vessel Gunnar Thorson, as well as a helicopter...

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People like small pickup trucks? Wait till y'all find out about kei trucks. Check out this old article from

. nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/international/japan-seeks-to-squelch-its-tiny-cars.html?unlocked_article_code=7wkvP2lU3UwwJd3Gl-UXln4LqTHdNoLgvnVZMKTSg2v-tI5BZpcmg5q0ENVRl0rjpTbY1VZy8wz0ltXcS6hZIea57M4jXe3HGizXOYMPmrGOC5Fdo2rpKa03k0s_CWC4Tt2AQhkbKUTceqguCjseunMfGjOILT0U8ihmiDbZBcDm1utx4XU33zvjyzdBopmWk6w9Mc4_ViHNWZZONZ7UZghO9CkKjd-X1BcVlK7aWDrwZ2EVqqErK7onC2xD5M5S8bAtyRxV2Nffa-turGl708cebTac3DcZxCN0z04CEJyBbCJtMMEr48ouGj9sbVBKFzBlAcb0JcAitjjVXd9F5xkNYHyf_UBnsyXDh_N3_PcuSgel3S7IqOHaKFxm&smid=share-url

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Breaking News: Hurricane Fiona knocked out power to all of Puerto Rico on Sunday, its governor said, as forecasters warned that the storm could bring as much as two feet of rain and cause life-threatening floods and landslides.

Canada Mobilizes Military to Help Towns Slammed by Fiona

Forecasters described Fiona as “a historic storm” that struck eastern Canada on Saturday. The body of a 73-year-old woman who was swept out to sea was recovered on Sunday, the police said.

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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/ef2654 Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people. A thread:

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The state of U.S. climate policy: The government will lease hundreds of millions more acres for offshore drilling in the Gulf, even as it invests hundreds of billions of dollars to move the country away from fossil fuels. From

Where the New Climate Law Means More Drilling, Not Less

A compromise built into the law ensures oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico for the next decade. Activists say the region has been “sacrificed” to fossil fuels.

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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.

Oil Executives Privately Contradicted Public Statements on Climate, Files Show

The documents, subpoenaed in a House investigation of climate disinformation, show company leaders contravening industry commitments.

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I keep seeing this claim that you have to use a cotton tote bag 20,000x for it to be more environmentally friendly than plastic bags. Can it really be true? Short thread...

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“We need government watchdogs to ensure the money follows need,”

said in a recent interview. “Climate change will make the inequities and disparities worse, and widen that gap. That’s why this time, we have to get this right.”

At 75, the Father of Environmental Justice Meets the Moment

The White House has pledged $60 billion to a cause Robert Bullard has championed since the late seventies. He wants guarantees that the money will end up in the right hands.

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NEW: The Hasidic Jewish community runs scores of private boys’ schools that have gotten over $1 billion in public money. But a NYT investigation found they are denying students a basic education, trapping generations of kids in poverty. With

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In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush With Public Money

New York’s Hasidic Jewish religious schools have benefited from $1 billion in government funding in the last four years but are unaccountable to outside oversight.

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Breaking News: California lawmakers passed aggressive new climate measures, approving $54 billion in spending and voting to reach net-zero emissions by 2045.

California Approves a Wave of Aggressive New Climate Measures

After lobbying by the governor, lawmakers adopted $54 billion in climate spending and voted to keep open the state’s last nuclear plant.

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Faculty and staff at the University of Cambridge are poised to vote on a measure that would ban the university from accepting funding from coal, oil, and gas companies. It would be the first leading university to do so.

Kicking oil companies out of school

Faculty and staff at Cambridge are planning a vote that would require the university to stop accepting fossil fuel money for research. It’s part of an expanding movement.

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President Biden signed a sweeping health, climate and tax law, cementing for Democrats a hard-fought win after more than a year of setbacks. nyti.ms/3K1ClL2

President Biden shakes hands with Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia after signing into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 in the State Dining Room of the White House. A headline reads: Biden Signs Expansive Health, Climate and Tax Law. Photo credit: Doug Mills/The New York Times

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The latest edition of Climate Forward has landed in inboxes. If it missed yours, you can read it here:

Kicking oil companies out of school

Faculty and staff at Cambridge are planning a vote that would require the university to stop accepting fossil fuel money for research. It’s part of an expanding movement.

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to global soul-searching about overreliance on Russian oil and gas, but a new drama is unfolding over another of Russia’s major exports: diamonds.

Russia Fights Efforts to Declare It an Exporter of ‘Blood Diamonds’

As a major diamond producer, Russia earns billions of dollars that other nations say help finance war. The clash exposes the many loopholes in regulation of conflict diamonds.

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Mira Rojanasakul

"This one will come from the sky" For my first big project at

, I helped visualize a devastating storm scenario based on new research by

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"In the U.S., we have a history of taking a lot of first steps and then not taking the second, third or fourth step"...Rhiana Gunn-Wright's cautionary note on IRA

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As Historic Climate Bill Heads to Biden’s Desk, Young Activists Demand More

The bill will cut U.S. emissions, but not nearly enough. It’s “like losing 20 pounds when you need to lose 100 pounds” one expert said.

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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.nytimes.co

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Salman Rushdie on Ventilator Hours After Being Stabbed in Western New York

“The news is not good,” the author’s agent, Andrew Wylie, said in an emailed update Friday evening. He said Mr. Rushdie might lose an eye and his liver had been damaged. The celebrated author, who...

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“It is the disrespect of journalists — for power, for orthodoxies, for party lines, for ideologies, for vanity, for arrogance, for folly, for pretension, for corruption, for stupidity, maybe even for editors — that I urge you all, in freedom's name, to preserve.” — Salman Rushdie

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This Salman Rushdie quote, which I know by heart, has inspired me for so long.

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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..

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NEW: You've heard of the "big one," the giant earthquake that could devastate part of California. But there's also growing risk of a different history-making calamity, one whose fury would be felt across the entire state. This one will come from the sky.

The Coming California Megastorm

A different ‘Big One’ is approaching. Climate change is hastening its arrival.

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Breaking News: The warming of the Arctic, a definitive sign of climate change, is happening far more rapidly than previously described, researchers said — in one area, seven times faster than the global average.

Arctic Warming Is Happening Faster Than Described, Analysis Shows

The warming at the top of the globe, a sign of climate change, is happening much faster than previously described compared with the global average, scientists said Thursday.

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The #InflationReductionAct is likely to drive the first sustained period of declining US consumption of petroleum fuels and natural gas (e.g. outside of recessions) in history! REPEAT Project estimates ~13% decline in petroleum fuel & 8% decline in gas use by 2030 vs 2021.

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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:

Too Darn Hot: How Summer Stages Are Threatened by Climate Change

In the West, wildfires are stopping shows. Extreme heat has led to cancellations in the South. And changing weather patterns are hobbling performances in the Northeast.

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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

@julieturkewitz

In the Amazon, a U.N. Agency Has a Green Mission, but Dirty Partners

One of the world’s largest sustainable development agencies has worked with energy companies to quash opposition and keep oil flowing, even in sensitive areas.

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Here's a wrinkle. Heirs to oil fortunes are now funding aggressive climate protest groups, saying they want to reverse the harm caused by fossil fuels. By

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Here's the tweet from the lead author. I've also included the paper's abstract as a picture.

Keiichiro SAKURAI and Matthias Deutsch

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Christian Breyer

"On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research" ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/98379 authored by 15 universities & research leaders. Key message: #100RE is now mainstream, technologies are available, now it's roll-out. Aspects of present & future research are discussed.

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“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" —

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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! helsinkitimes.fi/themes/themes/

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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. nyti.ms/3bIBB0U

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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.

Manchin’s Donors Include Pipeline Giants That Win in His Climate Deal

The controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline is one of several projects the senator has negotiated major concessions for, benefiting his financial supporters.

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After covering climate leg efforts for a decade+, I wanted watch Senate passage in person. It will be

, still choking back tears as he left the floor, that will stick with me. "Now I can look my kids in the eye and say we're really doing something about climate."

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