News at a glance: High seas biodiversity, Japan ’s nuclear power, and banning gasoline cars

The objective is to ensure energy security and cut Japan’s greenhouse gas emissions, which are the world’s fifth largest. Engineers have restarted 10 of the 54 nuclear reactors shut down after the Fukushima disaster. Twenty-one are being decommissioned, and the rest are still under review, a process Kishida hopes to accelerate. To replace nuclear power, Japan’s utilities have burned more coal and natural gas, jeopardizing the country’s target of net-zero emissions by 2050. An economy ministry road map unveiled on 29 July suggests new, next-generation light-water reactors could be commercialized by the mid-2030s. Kishida also promised to give greater support to renewable power. In Focus A photo of eggs from the gliding tree frog ( Agalychnis spurrelli ) won the Life Close Up category in this year’s BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition . Brandon André Güell, a Ph.D. student at Boston University, photographed the eggs in Costa Rica. They usually hatch after 6 days of development but can do so prematurely to escape predators and desiccation. BRANDON ANDRÉ GÜELL THREE QS Walensky eyes CDC reforms Rochelle Walensky walked into a hot mess when she took the helm of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2021. The agency had difficulty keeping up with the fast-moving COVID-19 pandemic. It botched the develo...
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