Author Profile: T Hornyak

Tim Hornyak

Biography

Tim Hornyak (www.timhornyak.com) is a Canadian writer based in Tokyo, Japan, who has worked in journalism for more than 20 years. He has written extensively about travel, food, technology, science, culture, and business in Japan, as well as Japanese inventors, roboticists, and Nobel Prize–winning scientists. Tim’s writing has appeared in media including The New York Times, Nature, Science, Scientific American, CNBC, CNET, Eos, The Japan Times, and IDG News. He is the author of Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots and has contributed to several Lonely Planet travel guidebooks. His favorite robot is Astro Boy, but he firmly believes that the greatest Japanese invention of all time is the onsen (hot spring). He has lived in Tokyo for more than 15 years.

Publications from T. Hornyak

Geology & Geophysics

A scene from a Japanese picture scroll depicting the 1855 Edo earthquake

News 8 September 2020

Kabuki Actor’s Forgotten Manuscript Yields Clues About 1855 Quake in Japan

Researchers analyzed a survivor’s account of the disaster to better understand future temblors.

Atmospheric Sciences

Satellite image of Typhoon Hagibis approaching Japan

News 12 August 2020

Typhoons Getting Stronger, Making Landfall More Often

New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change.

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

Enormous ice chunks about to calve from a glacier in Neko Harbor, Antarctica

News 15 May 2020

Shrinking Ice Sheets Lifted Global Sea Level 14 Millimeters

Researchers measure both grounded and floating ice sheets using satellite data spanning a 16-year period.

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Geohealth

Person wearing a hooded jacket and surgical mask

News 28 April 2020

La Contaminación del Aire Puede Empeorar la Tasa de Mortalidad por COVID-19

Científicos descubren que condados altamente contaminados en los Estados Unidos tendrán una tasa de mortalidad por COVID19 4.5 veces más grande que aquellos condados similares.

Geohealth

Young man in a hoodie wearing a surgical mask outdoors

News 10 April 2020

Air Pollution Can Worsen the Death Rate from COVID-19

Scientists find that highly polluted counties in the United States will have a COVID-19 death rate 4.5 times higher than those with low pollution if they’re otherwise similar.

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

Placid view of Lake Windermere, Cumbria, and low rolling hills

News 2 April 2020

New Classification System for Lakes Forecasts a Warming Trend

Researchers devised a system of nine thermal categories for lakes and estimate that 79% of northern frigid lakes could become warmer types.

Biogeosciences

Four researchers study and take notes on leaves in a forest on the Tibetan Plateau in China.

News 18 March 2020

Early Sprouting of Leaves Enhances Northern Hemisphere Warming

As leaf out has been advancing 4–5 days per decade, scientists say the effect of vegetation on climate remains poorly understood.

Atmospheric Sciences

A clean two-lane road leads into a sunny winter day in Tromsø, Norway.

News 26 February 2020

Cleaner Air Takes Some of the Bite out of European Winters

Scientists find that reduced aerosol emissions correspond to fewer extremely cold days.

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology

Cliff face next to a river with markers of different strata in Japanese

News 30 January 2020

Japan Puts Its Mark on Geologic Time with the Chibanian Age

The newly named period in the Pleistocene identifies a key moment in geological history: the last time Earth’s magnetic poles switched places.

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Ocean Sciences

Monitoring team collecting a marine sediment sample near Fukushima Daiichi.

News 11 October 2017

IAEA Affirms Japan’s Fukushima-Related Radioactivity Monitoring

Laboratories outside Japan have validated the results. Marine radioactivity levels from the nuclear disaster have fallen, but questions remain years after the meltdown.

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Publications from T. Hornyak

Kabuki Actor’s Forgotten Manuscript Yields Clues About 1855 Quake in Japan

Typhoons Getting Stronger, Making Landfall More Often

Shrinking Ice Sheets Lifted Global Sea Level 14 Millimeters

La Contaminación del Aire Puede Empeorar la Tasa de Mortalidad por COVID-19

Air Pollution Can Worsen the Death Rate from COVID-19

New Classification System for Lakes Forecasts a Warming Trend

Early Sprouting of Leaves Enhances Northern Hemisphere Warming

Cleaner Air Takes Some of the Bite out of European Winters

Japan Puts Its Mark on Geologic Time with the Chibanian Age

IAEA Affirms Japan’s Fukushima-Related Radioactivity Monitoring

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