内容摘要：For example, she prefers to shop for jeans in-person. "I'm tall, and I have specific cuts of jeans that I wear," she says, "and there are tried-and-true styles and brands I like."

For example, she prefers to shop for jeans in-person. "I'm tall, and I have specific cuts of jeans that I wear," she says, "and there are tried-and-true styles and brands I like."

"The government has always told us that they would not release its emergency rice stocks to control the price so we felt betrayed," Mr Tabuchi says.Despite the government's rare decision to release rice, prices have continued to rise.

The cost of rice is also soaring in South East Asia, which accounts for almost 30% of global rice production - economic, political and climate pressures have resulted in shortages in recent years.In Japan though the issue has become so serious that the country has begun importing rice from South Korea for the first time in a quarter of a century, even though consumers prefer homegrown varieties.PM Ishiba has also hinted at expanding imports of US rice as his government continues to negotiate a trade deal with Washington.

But shoppers like Ms Higuchi say they are unlikely to buy non-Japanese rice."We've been saying local production for local consumption for a long time," she says. "There has to be a way for Japanese farmers to be profitable and consumers to feel safe by being able to afford home-grown produce."

This divides opinion among farmers.

"You may hear that the industry is ageing and shrinking but that is not necessarily true," says Mr Tabuchi, who believes the sector has been too protected by the government."The strength of this study is that they use multiple lines of evidence to show that our climate is in a similar state to when several metres of ice was melted in the past," said Prof Andy Shepherd, a glaciologist at Northumbria University, who was not involved in the new publication.

"This would have devastating impacts on coastal communities," he added.An estimated 230 million people live within one metre of current high tide lines.

Defining a "safe" limit of warming is inherently challenging, because some populations are more vulnerable than others.But if sea-level rise reaches a centimetre a year or more by the end of the century - mainly because of ice melt and warming oceans - that could stretch even rich countries' abilities to cope, the researchers say.