The scorching heat is leaving vegetable, dairy and fish farmers struggling with unprecedented challenges and driving up prices that could hit consumers hard.
2023 in Japan was the hottest year ever recorded, with all-time highs in Fukushima and Ishikawa, long heat waves, and hot weather lasting well into autumn.
Children are participating in hands-on learning about climate change when insulating their schools, but costs remain a challenge at the national scale.
Using a supercomputer, Meteorological Research Institute researchers have quantified the role of global warming in heat waves and other extreme weather events.
