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

Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

African women plant seedlings as part of the Great Green Wall.

News 9 March 2021

New Funding Fortifies Africa’s Great Green Wall

With increased investment and renewed interest, a project to halt land degradation across the Sahel aims to transform the landscape—and people’s lives.

Geohealth

Health officials monitor residents with thermometers and disinfectants

News 6 November 2020

Can Climate Preparedness Mitigate Emerging Pandemics?

Indonesians say being prepared for climate-related disasters helped blunt the impact of the coronavirus pandemic—and that lessons in resilience may mitigate the effects of climate crises in the future.

Space Science & Space Physics

An X4.9 class solar flare erupts from the Sun.

News 5 October 2020

Scientists Claim a More Accurate Method of Predicting Solar Flares

Supercomputer 3D modeling of magnetic fields could help mitigate damage from geomagnetic storms.

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