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Learning to love G.M.O.s
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Learning to love G.M.O.s

Overblown fears have turned the public against genetically modified food. But the potential benefits have never been greater.
Living in a world in which nature has already lost
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Living in a world in which nature has already lost

In “Second Nature,” Nathaniel Rich offers a tour of the ways humans have both conquered the natural world and been overwhelmed by the unintended consequences.
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Jeff VanderMeer: It’s 2071, and we have bioengineered our own extinction
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Jeff VanderMeer: It’s 2071, and we have bioengineered our own extinction

The micro- and macro-organisms that saved humanity from our climate crisis are now changing us - and might destroy us.

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