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A Japanese scientist spent decades working on a 1,200 year-old record of cherry blossom flowerings, helping to reveal the effects of climate change. After he died last year, a new researcher has said they will continue his work.


Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change

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