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Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, climate philosopher, and author, most recently, of “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress.” He teaches at the University of Notre ...

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Researchers from the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program are involved in the recently launched EU-funded Trees4Adapt project. The project focuses on tree-based solutions for climate ...

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The nest parasites get a bad rap for making other birds raise their young, but study by study, Mark Hauber and his “Cowbird ...

Canada’s Pacific coast province of British Columbia is ending its three-year experiment in decriminalizing possession of ...

Dr. Victor is a professor of innovation and public policy at the University of California, San Diego, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. On its face, 2025 looks like a year ...