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The race to save the world’s DNA

A scientific rescue mission aims to analyze every plant, animal, and fungus before it’s too late.
That’s all, folks: A serious joke book about climate change

That’s all, folks: A serious joke book about climate change

Stacy McAnulty’s “Save the People!” employs humor to call middle grade readers to action.
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magnetic reversal triggered massive climate shifts
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Magnetic reversal caused massive climate shifts

About 42,000 years ago, a magnetic reversal triggered massive climate shifts and caused environmental changes to sweep across the globe.
climate change as a national security risk
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Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò: Don’t treat climate change as a national security risk

The last thing the warming world needs is for rich nations to double down on self-interest.
Germany's grassroots push to save pollinators
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In Germany, a grassroots push to save disappearing birds and bees forces change

Shocking declines in bird and insect numbers fuel a powerful, citizen-based movement for farms to protect nature, one that seems to be catching on across Europe.
Earth has had more major mass extinctions than we realized

Earth has had more major mass extinctions than we realized

All these periods of sudden, drastic species loss share patterns. That has worrying implications for the climate-driven losses we’re seeing now.
Gianluca Serra: Why you should care about the current wave of mass extinctions
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Gianluca Serra: Why you should care about the current wave of mass extinctions

The extinction crisis we are witnessing is only the beginning of a wave of mass ecocide of non-human life on Earth.

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