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  • Ishi HiroyukiEnvironmental journalist and scientist. After a stint on the Asahi Shimbun editorial board, served as a senior consultant to the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi and Bangkok. Other positions include professorships at the University of Tokyo and Hokkaidō University and Japanese ambassador to Zambia. His works include Chikyū kankyō hōkoku (Global Environmental Report) and Watashi no chikyū henreki—Kankyō hakai no genba o motomete (My World Travels in Search of Environmental Destruction). Author of the Nippon.com series “Remarkable Recovery: The Modern History of Japan’s Environment.”

    Ishi HiroyukiEnvironmental journalist and scientist. After a stint on the Asahi Shimbun editorial board, served as a senior consultant to the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi and Bangkok. Other positions include professorships at the University of Tokyo and Hokkaidō University and Japanese ambassador to Zambia. His works include Chikyū kankyō hōkoku (Global Environmental Report) and Watashi no chikyū henreki—Kankyō hakai no genba o motomete (My World Travels in Search of Environmental Destruction). Author of the Nippon.com series “Remarkable Recovery: The Modern History of Japan’s Environment.”

  • An elderly patient assisted by a doctor at a medical facility in Brescia in the northern Italian region of Lombardy. As of March 12, there were 15,113 cases of novel coronavirus in Italy and 1,016 deaths. Italy is the second country after China, where the virus first appeared, to have a death toll that exceeds 1,000. (© Luca Bruno/AP Photo/Aflo)

    An elderly patient assisted by a doctor at a medical facility in Brescia in the northern Italian region of Lombardy. As of March 12, there were 15,113 cases of novel coronavirus in Italy and 1,016 deaths. Italy is the second country after China, where the virus first appeared, to have a death toll that exceeds 1,000. (© Luca Bruno/AP Photo/Aflo)

  • A temporary hospital ward set up at the US Army’s Camp Funston in Kansas, which was considered the epicenter of the global Spanish flu pandemic. (© Science Photo Library/Aflo)

    A temporary hospital ward set up at the US Army’s Camp Funston in Kansas, which was considered the epicenter of the global Spanish flu pandemic. (© Science Photo Library/Aflo)

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