Newsletter www.nytimes.com Japan races to build new coal-burning power plants, despite the climate risks As many as 22 new coal plants - one of the dirtiest power sources - will arise at 17 sites across Japan, just as the world must slash emissions to fight warming.
Impacts www.nytimes.com Typhoon Hagibis could match fury of 1958 storm that killed 1,200 in Japan Forecasters say Chiba Prefecture, which was battered by a typhoon last month and is still recovering, is in the direct path of the powerful storm.
Impacts www.nytimes.com Tokyo braces for hottest Olympics ever In 1964, the Tokyo Olympics were held in October. There was a reason for that. It was hot then. It’s hotter now.
www.nytimes.com Temperature hits record high in Japan as nation withers The mercury reached nearly 106 degrees in Kumagaya, a city northwest of Tokyo, with no end in sight for a heat wave that is already two weeks old.
Newsletter www.nytimes.com Temperature hits record high in Japan as nation withers The mercury reached nearly 106 degrees in Kumagaya, a city northwest of Tokyo, with no end in sight for a heat wave that is already two weeks old.
www.nytimes.com Six years after Fukushima, robots finally find reactors’ melted uranium fuel The Japanese government and companies used radiation-hardened machines to search for the fuel that escaped the plant’s ruined reactors.
