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Hiroko Tabuchi

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Pollution and Environmental Costs Reporter at The New York Times

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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  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Hiroko Tabuchi

    Community groups are fighting an unusual Louisiana law that restricts how they use data from air-quality monitors, saying it violates free speech. Since 2022, residents of St. James Parish, along the heavily industrialized banks of the Mississippi River known as "Cancer Alley," have used low-cost monitors to measure air pollution. But a new law in Louisiana makes it illegal to use that data to push for stricter pollution controls or enforcement.

  • 2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Hiroko Tabuchi

    The planet lost a record amount of forests last year, largely because of fires that raged around the world, data shows. Loss of pristine rainforests alone reached 6.7 million hectares (16.5 million acres) in 2024, nearly twice as much as in 2023, researchers at the University of Maryland and the World Resources Institute said in an annual update of the state of the world’s forests. The world lost the equivalent of 18 soccer fields of forested land every minute, the researchers estimated.

  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Hiroko Tabuchi

    Forests around the world disappeared at a rate of 18 soccer fields every minute, a global survey found. Fires accounted for nearly half of the losses. The planet lost a record amount of forests last year, largely because of fires that raged around the world, data shows.

  • 2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Hiroko Tabuchi

    In Europe, the weedkiller atrazine has been banned for nearly two decades because of its suspected links to reproductive problems like reduced sperm quality and birth defects. In the United States, it remains one of the most widely used pesticides, sprayed on corn, sugar cane, and other crops, the result of years of industry lobbying. It has been detected in the drinking water of some 40 million Americans.

  • 2 weeks ago | thestar.com.my | Hiroko Tabuchi

    THE abandoned Galey & Lord textile mill in Society Hill, South Carolina, looms like a relic of industrial decay. Steel gates stripped by looters, rusted tanks submerged in murky water and alligators patrolling wastewater ponds paint a dystopian scene. But the true threat, environmental officials warn, lies beyond the mill’s crumbling walls: up to 4,000ha of contaminated farmland, some still producing food, now at the heart of a battle to become part of a federal Superfund cleanup.

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Hiroko Tabuchi
Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi
7 Oct 22

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 https://t.co/Bs1RzhjDBz

Hiroko Tabuchi
Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi
5 Oct 22

RT @nytimes: South Asia’s annual monsoon brings life-giving water to nearly a quarter of humanity. But climate change is making the monsoo…

Hiroko Tabuchi
Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi
30 Sep 22

Scientists are modeling the path of the plume of methane gas from the pipeline leaks caused by explosions -- highlighting the work of @ICOS_RI https://t.co/VqtwpzIXrK https://t.co/82SmR64LeW