Climate change at the scale of everyday systems
IMPACTS: Climates Change the World is an NHK WORLD-JAPAN series about the consequences of a warming planet. Its short reports connect scientific findings with the places, industries and ecosystems already experiencing change. Rather than building a single feature-length argument, the programme returns to individual problems and the responses being developed around them.
Agriculture provides several of its most concrete examples. Reports examine methane emissions from rice paddies, efforts to develop rice varieties that withstand hotter summers and stronger typhoons, and the decline of returning Japanese chum salmon. These subjects connect emissions, food production and ecological disruption without treating them as separate stories.
