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The Amazon lost 24,000 square miles of land this decade
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The Amazon lost 24,000 square miles of land this decade

Opinion | The dizzying loss of forest land in the Amazon is the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Decade.
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Opinion: Climate change is a political crisis, not a reproductive one
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Opinion: Climate change is a political crisis, not a reproductive one

Asking millennials to forego children in the name of climate change only lets the fossil fuel industry off the hook.

Darien Alexander Williams: The folly of climate change philanthropy
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Darien Alexander Williams: The folly of climate change philanthropy

Corporate largesse won't save cities from global warming — especially when it comes from the industry that helped cause the predicament.

The giant rodents eating Louisiana’s coast
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The giant rodents eating Louisiana’s coast

A recent documentary focuses on the nutria devouring Louisiana’s wetlands — but the problems facing the coast are even bigger.
Clinton Parks: The rising tide of climate injustice
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Clinton Parks: The rising tide of climate injustice

The impacts of climate change cannot be disentangled from the politics of inequality and race. Just look at my hometown.

Rocky Kistner: As the threat of Lyme disease rises, funding lags
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Rocky Kistner: As the threat of Lyme disease rises, funding lags

The tick-borne illness now costs Americans up to $1.3 billion a year in medical expenses. It's time for politicians to mount a response.

Ted Nordhaus is wrong: We are exceeding Earth's capacity for humans
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Ted Nordhaus is wrong: We are exceeding Earth's capacity for humans

Opinion: The co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute has a cheery vision of the future. If only it were plausible.
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