{"id":11199,"date":"2021-01-21T10:14:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3118701\/vanishing-snow-sinking-tokyo-sky-tree-sobering"},"modified":"2021-01-21T10:14:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:14:39","slug":"vanishing-snow-sinking-tokyo-sky-tree-sobering-forecast-for-japan-if-climate-change-goes-unchecked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/vanishing-snow-sinking-tokyo-sky-tree-sobering-forecast-for-japan-if-climate-change-goes-unchecked\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing snow, sinking Tokyo Sky Tree: sobering forecast for Japan if climate change goes unchecked"},"content":{"rendered":"The famed geisha of Kyoto are collapsing from the heat. The apple trees that are a feature of Japan\u2019s northern Aomori prefecture are barren. A ski slope in the central Nagano prefecture is green due to a lack of winter snow. Numerous other parts of the country \u2013 from Iwate to Yamagata, Ishikawa, Osaka and the city of Tokyo \u2013 are under water.These are some of the scenarios showing what the most famous landmarks in all of Japan\u2019s 47 prefectures will look like if climate change continues unabated\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3118701\/vanishing-snow-sinking-tokyo-sky-tree-sobering\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famed geisha of Kyoto are collapsing from the heat. The apple trees that are a feature of Japan\u2019s northern Aomori prefecture are barren. A ski slope in the central Nagano prefecture is green due to a lack of winter snow. Numerous other parts of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11264,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199\/revisions\/11264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}