In this picture taken early on January 29, 2026, Kiyoshi Miyasaka, the priest of Yatsurugi Shrine shows an ancient map from the centuries-old archive describing winter conditions of Lake Suwa and "miwatari" crossings, in the office of the shrine in Suwa city of Nagano Prefecture. The Japanese priest and his parishioners gathered before dawn, hoping that climate change had not robbed them of the chance to experience an increasingly rare communion with the sacred. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-CLIMATE-RELIGION-NATURE-ENVIRONMENT-SCIENCE,REPORTAGE' by Harumi OZAWA

This picture taken early on January 29, 2026 shows Kiyoshi Miyasaka, the priest of Yatsurugi Shrine holding a piece of ice from the frozen Lake Suwa of Nagano Prefecture. The Japanese priest and his parishioners gathered before dawn, hoping that climate change had not robbed them of the chance to experience an increasingly rare communion with the sacred. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-CLIMATE-RELIGION-NATURE-ENVIRONMENT-SCIENCE,REPORTAGE' by Harumi OZAWA

This picture taken early on January 29, 2026 shows a parishioner of Yatsurugi Shrine cracking the ice with an axe to measure the ice of Lake Suwa of Nagano Prefecture. The Japanese priest and his parishioners gathered before dawn, hoping that climate change had not robbed them of the chance to experience an increasingly rare communion with the sacred. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-CLIMATE-RELIGION-NATURE-ENVIRONMENT-SCIENCE,REPORTAGE' by Harumi OZAWA

This picture taken early on January 29, 2026 shows a parishioner of Yatsurugi Shrine cracking the ice with an axe to measure the ice of Lake Suwa of Nagano Prefecture. The Japanese priest and his parishioners gathered before dawn, hoping that climate change had not robbed them of the chance to experience an increasingly rare communion with the sacred. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-CLIMATE-RELIGION-NATURE-ENVIRONMENT-SCIENCE,REPORTAGE' by Harumi OZAWA

This picture taken early on January 29, 2026 shows parishioners of Yatsurugi Shrine walking to the pier of the lake bank before measuring the ice at Lake Suwa of Nagano Prefecture. The Japanese priest and his parishioners gathered before dawn, hoping that climate change had not robbed them of the chance to experience an increasingly rare communion with the sacred. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-CLIMATE-RELIGION-NATURE-ENVIRONMENT-SCIENCE,REPORTAGE' by Harumi OZAWA

This picture taken early on January 29, 2026 shows a parishioner of Yatsurugi Shrine holding ice from the frozen Lake Suwa of Nagano Prefecture. The Japanese priest and his parishioners gathered before dawn, hoping that climate change had not robbed them of the chance to experience an increasingly rare communion with the sacred. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-CLIMATE-RELIGION-NATURE-ENVIRONMENT-SCIENCE,REPORTAGE' by Harumi OZAWA

(FILES) Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was arrested during March 26, 2017 anti-corruption rally, gestures during an appeal hearing at a court in Moscow on March 30, 2017. The "murder" of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison in 2024 is now a "science-proven fact", his widow Yulia Navalnaya said on February 14, 2026 after five European countries said Moscow used a lethal toxic on the Kremlin opponent. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) Then Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia sit in a Pobeda airlines plane heading to Moscow before take-off from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) in Schoenefeld, southeast of Berlin, on January 17, 2021. The "murder" of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison in 2024 is now a "science-proven fact", his widow Yulia Navalnaya said on February 14, 2026 after five European countries said Moscow used a lethal toxic on the Kremlin opponent. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images)