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(Image credit: Thomas Vimare/Unsplash) The ocean soaked up more heat last year than in any year since modern measurements began around 1960, according to a new analysis published in Advances in Atmospheric Science . The world's oceans absorb more than 90% of excess heat trapped in Earth's atmosphere by greenhouse…

Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.  Global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, according to a report released Friday in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. The study—a collaboration involving more than 50 scientists…

Takahiro Masuda, a university student in Hiroshima majoring in bioinformatics, participated in the UNITAR SDGs and Digital Futures: Changemaking Through AI/Digital Storytelling training programme in 2025. For his final project in the programme, Takahiro developed an app that uses AI and extended reality (XR) technologies to allow viewers to vividly…

More than 103,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that K-pop girl group Aespa be banned from taking part in a New Year music event in Japan over an image posted by one of its singers that protesters claim depicts the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The petition,…

It's been 80 years since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki — the only time nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. It's also been more than three decades since the world's last major nuclear test, marking the end of an era of full-scale detonations…

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Loud screams, tearful cries, signs raised up in various languages: the residents of Hiroshima, Japan, which had subjected to atomic bombing by America in 1945, marched in support of Gaza and demanded an end to brutal war enacted by Israel against the Gaza Strip. Al-Masry Al-Youm saw this firsthand during…

August 14, 2025 This year, the sanitized appeals to peace, hope, and resilience in memory of the catastrophe have become increasingly hollow. A huge cloud resulting from the massive fires started by “Little Boy,” the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, is photographed from a reconnaissance plane a few hours…

Doves are released during a memorial ceremony at Peace Park in Nagasaki Alamy A-Bomb About 74,000 people were killed by the A-bomb in Nagasaki, on top of the 140,000 killed in Hiroshima days earlier. TWIN CATHEDRAL BELLS have rung in unison in Japan’s Nagasaki for the first time since the…