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Those viral "wildfire" videos from Japan's mountains? Not smoke — pollen, tied to decades of forest policy that's proving hard to reverse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/03/23/earth-science/hay-fever-tokyo-pollen/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #earthscience #pollen #hayfever #health #allergy #tokyo #chichibu #okutama
The human-made roots of Japan's hay fever crisis

Efforts to thin forests and breed low-pollen cedar advance, even as labor gaps and neglected land complicate the work.

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