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Japan

After Fukushima, a Fundamental Renewable Energy Shift in Japan Never Happened. Could Global Climate Concerns Bring it Today?

The power of entrenched utilities kept coal and nuclear-electricity on the grid, but a sake brewer in the prefecture devastated by the disaster is pushing locally-generated renewable energy.

By James Simms

President Joe Biden delivers remarks as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and former Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with 40 world leaders at the East Room of the White House April 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images

As Nations Gather for Biden’s Virtual Climate Summit, Ambitious Pledges That Still Fall Short of Paris Goal

By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin, Nicholas Kusnetz

The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant at Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County,

U.S. Nuclear Safety Post-Fukushima

By Elizabeth Douglass, InsideClimate News

Citizens protest the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project

India: Prospects Dim for Nuclear Expansion

By Ranjit Devraj, InsideClimate News

Sweden’s Lillgrund offshore wind farm lies in the Öresund Sound between Malmö an

Japan to Tap Wind for Fukushima Coast

By Yoko Kubota, Reuters

German Nuke Closure Forces Big Job Cuts

By Tom Bawden, Guardian

Undersea Rare Earths Likely a Pipe Dream

By Julie Gordon, Reuters

New York City at night

Without Indian Pt, Could NYC Keep Its Lights On?

By Alice Kenny, SolveClimate News

Naoto Kan, Japan's prime minister

Japan's $260 Billion Solar Opportunity

By Risa Maeda and Leonora Walet, Reuters

Naoto Kan, prime minister of Japan

'Melt-Through' Fears at Fukushima

Justin McCurry, Guardian

Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace

Japan Criticized for Ignoring Tsunami Risk

Justin McCurry, Guardian

New York: Is Indian Point Worth the Risk?

By Alice Kenny, SolveClimate News

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India

Will Japan Disaster Affect India's Import of Foreign Reactors?

By Ranjit Devraj

Geothermal power plant in Japan

Can Geothermal Help Crisis-Stricken Japan?

By Leonora Walet and Tessa Dunlop, Reuters

Earthquake damage in Wakuya, Japan.

Mistakes, Misfortune Plague Japan in Nuclear Crisis

By Kevin Krolicki, Reuters

Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant

Japan Crisis Shows Dilemma Over Nuclear Sites

Alister Doyle, Reuters

Japan to Drill for Controversial "Fire Ice"

By Guest Writer

Hatoyama Resignation Won't Affect Japan's $15 Billion Climate Pledge: Official

By Stacy Feldman

Chinese Solar Firms Eye Fast-Growing Japanese Market

By Stacy Feldman

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