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Climate change is affecting Canada's annual hair-freezing contest

Come winter, scores of guests at Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs in Canada’s Yukon region defy gravity, turning their hair into upward-facing icicles. But climate change, bringing warmer and shorter winters, has already begun to take a toll on the lighthearted celebration of coldness.

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Geothermal power, cheap and clean, could help run Japan. So why doesn’t it?

For decades, new plants have been blocked by powerful local interests, the owners of hot spring resorts, that say the sites threaten a centuries-old tradition.
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