タイで洞窟に閉じ込められていた人々が救出されました。 Family members of several of the young Thai soccer players and their coach, freed after almost three weeks trapped deep in a cave in northern Thailand, are still waiting to be reunited w…

大気汚染が糖尿病の原因になることがあるようです。Filthy air may account for 14% of new diabetes casesAir pollution could be responsible for 3.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes every year globally, suggests a new analysis.“We estimate t…

「なるほど」と感じた表現を紹介します。 本日行われた Oral Communication & Presentationsの授業にて、ディスカッションにおけるdiscourse markerの使い分けについて詳しい解説がありました。その中で気になったのが in a nutshellです。教科書内ではconfi…

テニスの錦織圭選手が、日本男子23年ぶりのウィンブルドン準々決勝進出を果たしました。前略Latvian qualifier Gulbis, a former world number 10 also looking for his first quarter-final at Wimbledon, gave as good as he got in a ding-dong battle ov…

But I just don't feel any of them can fully describe the ferocity of torrential rains that unleashed widespread floods and landslides, leaving a trail of horrific destruction across prefectural borders in western Japan. My heart aches from…

スターバックスは使い捨てストローを2020年までに廃止することを発表しました。Starbucks, citing ocean threat, is ditching plastic strawsStarbucks will eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, the coffee chain announ…

This story touches us because it is elemental, but also because every detail runs counter to the egomania and selfishness and fake bravado that appears to be running the world. The parents of the boys wrote to reassure the young coach that…

Police beef up property protection in flood areasJapan's National Police Agency has sent additional patrol units to western parts of Japan to protect property left empty by flooding.The goal is to prevent burglaries of houses and shops, es…

西日本の豪雨は平成で大被害になりました。The overall death toll, from 13 prefectures, was the first to exceed 100 for a flooding disaster since July 1983, when heavy rains pelted an area in western Japan centered on Shimane Prefecture.（以…