Died in August 2025, climatologist Yasuyuki Aono left orphaned a remarkable time series compiling a thousand two hundred years of data on the cherry trees of the former capital, Kyoto, whose flowering increasingly early bears witness to climate change. His successor has just been found.
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Died in August 2025, climatologist Yasuyuki Aono left orphaned a remarkable time series compiling a thousand two hundred years of data on the cherry trees of the former capital, Kyoto, whose flowering increasingly early bears witness to climate change. His successor has just been found.