Divers in Shiretoko have long called it Ikuone. Now Clione ikuoi is the sixth sea angel species, and the third from Japanese waters in 10 years. A misread set of feeding arms had kept it in the wrong genus.
A Japanese headline put this year's El Niño losses in the trillions. The figure traces back to a 2023 estimate of $5.7 trillion for the 1997–98 event. Why estimates differ 100-fold, and a think tank's own correction.
Fossils said the Late Cretaceous Arctic was warm enough for dinosaurs, but climate models could not reproduce it. A Japanese team let Earth's axial tilt roam its full range and points to geography as the amplifier.
Hokkaido University and Japan's forestry institute modelled all 349 ski areas in the country. At 4°C of warming, only seven stay open 100 days a year on natural snow. At 2°C, 53 do.