Thai New Year is called "Songkran Festival" and is a national holiday from April 13th to 15th. It is also known as the "Water Festival" and people celebrate the New Year by splashing water on each other. Did you know that there are traditional dishes to eat during Songkran?

The artificial modification of nature accompanied by the destruction of biodiversity can impair the functions of ecosystems that support the Earth. Earth Day, celebrated on April 22, provides an opportunity to raise awareness and encourage action on various environmental crises facing the planet.

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 19, 2025, researchers who travel around the world to conduct research will be at the booth to introduce their research. This is a rare opportunity to talk to cutting-edge researchers, so please feel free to come and talk to us.

The poorest and most vulnerable people tend to be the most affected by extreme weather events, even though they have the least to do with causing climate change. A World Bank study that discusses the relationship between climate change and global patterns of inequality.

According to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service, March 2025 was the second warmest March on record globally, with temperatures 1.60°C above pre-industrial levels. Arctic sea ice also recorded its lowest monthly March extent in 47 years of satellite records, standing 6% below average.

The paper "The futures of climate modeling" published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science examines the current state of climate modeling and proposes future divergent paths for incremental change using various tools.

Changes in biodiversity pose significant threats to human societies at local and global scales, highlighting the urgent need to understand the impacts of anthropogenic activities on ecosystems. The paper published in Nature comprehensively analyzed published papers and quantified anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity across several spatial scales, from local to global, evaluating whether anthropogenically impacted sites are more similar to each other (homogenization) or different (differentiation) than reference sites, and examining changes in species composition.

How global warming will affect the global water cycle (the continuous movement of water between the Earth and the atmosphere) is also an important issue for water resource management and weather forecasting. A paper published in Science magazine presented evidence of a permanent decrease in terrestrial water storage under current climate change by integrating multiple global geophysical datasets. The evidence suggests that the decrease in soil moisture may be irreversible due to prolonged drought conditions and reduced precipitation in certain regions.

JIRCAS is a research organisation responsible for a series of research and development activities ranging from technological development to demonstration and social application in developing countries and other regions facing difficulties in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industries. In each of these regions, production problems specific to each region arise, and it is necessary to find a way to solve these problems with flexible and innovative research ideas. Such ideas can actually be inspired by past practices at actual production sites. In this report, the importance of learning from historical documents, which contain a collection of local knowledge from the Edo era, is highlighted through a literature survey on sugarcane production in the Shikoku region.