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Japan’s oldest village tries to attract new, younger residents

Japan in Focus

Nearly one-third of Japan’s population is over 65, making it the oldest country in the world. Small rural towns nationwide are seeing these demographic changes most acutely as younger residents leave for larger cities. Nowhere is this more evident than in the village of Nanmoku, where officials are using the allure of cheap property to bring a newer, younger generation of residents to town.

Panama has relocated islanders affected by rising sea levels — and says many more villages also need to be moved

Climate Change

Mexico City’s bike culture is thriving

Lifestyle

A city in southern Brazil is forced to adapt after floods shut down a major airport

Environment

How do you save a vanishing lake? Kazakhstan has a plan.

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Panelist for the online event on the environmental impact of the war in Ukraine.

LIVE Event: The Environmental Cost of the War in Ukraine

Ukraine

Join The World’s Carolyn Beeler for a conversation with Ukrainian environmental scientist Kateryna Polyanska and Doug Weir from The Conflict and Environment Observatory.

Rancher Bill Johnson and wildlife researcher Carol Bogezi on Johnson's ranch in Washington's Teanaway Valley. Bogezi has been working with Johnson and other ranchers in eastern Washington to try to find a way to help them live more amicably with wolves.

How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda

Environment

Would you buy wolf-friendly meat? That’s one idea Carol Bogezi has to help cattle ranchers in Washington state learn to live with wolves.

NYU professor studying the way humans use transportation

Environment

Transportation systems in America are incredibly hard on the environment — between cars and airplanes and the like — but a professor in New York says that doesn’t have to be the case.

Containers with toxic cargo spill into ocean off New Zealand

Environment

Problems are escalating for a cargo ship that has been dumping oil into the ocean for days. The severely listing ship is now dumping toxic cargo containers into the ocean and they heading for shore.

Company making detergent bottles out of ocean plastic

Environment

The Pacific Ocean is filling with discarded plastic. One company wants to use that plastic to create recycled bottles.