New York Times: A mysterious pestilence has befallen this islands primeval forests, leaving behind the bleached, skeletal remains of dead trees that now dot the dark green mountainsides. Osamu Nagafuchi, an environmental engineer with a passion for the island and its rugged terrain, believes he knows the culprit: airborne pollutants from smog-belching China, hundreds of miles upwind. For years, Mr. Nagafuchis theory was ignored by fellow scientists and even mocked by bureaucrats in the national government who...