Hiroko Tabuchi

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

[Hiroko Tabuchi @HirokoTabuchi]

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 https://t.co/1RmYAcuSvP

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@Guay_JG You are too kind!

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@jswatz John, you are too kind! I hope you are well.

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@curious_founder Thank you for sharing 🙏

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@JKSteinberger Prof. Steinberger, many thanks for this informative thread 🙏

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@hausfath Thank you for sharing 🙏

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@TokyoJim Thanks!

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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 https://t.co/Bs1RzhjDBz

[The New York Times @nytimes]

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.
https://t.co/tZlbFgSZtZ

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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 @ICOS_RI https://t.co/VqtwpzIXrK

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

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

https://t.co/NgtzlxHqxM

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

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 https://t.co/gtHvhNsnuT

Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people.

A thread:

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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. https://t.co/JAL6qYib9P

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@peterluizcabral @David_Leheny The beginning of the end of Twitter!

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@NicoleFurlonge That was crazy — so sorry!!

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@NicoleFurlonge Wait, were you on the same flight?

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@TweetleDuh13 Yeah but we were literally stuck inside the plane so…

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@worthen_ray well, with zero miles traveled..

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@MickiMaynard We kept on taxiing all around the airport, I think maybe to keep our place in line?

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@jhavanis @united @aartivirani Anisha! I’ve been stuck at Newark on a departing plane since 2:30pm. Going on 6 hours! We might have passed each other on this mess that is the tarmac 😭

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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. https://t.co/NtpjhdkpZp

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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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https://t.co/1ja67PW4jw