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Athletes are speaking up against fossil fuel sponsorship. Why now?

In the last week, Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins, the Fremantle Dockers AFL club and the Diamonds netball team have all ma...

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To build for a warming planet, architects look to nature – and the past

Fifteen years ago, Kyle Isacksen and his wife, Katy Chandler, lived in what most people in their home city of Reno, Nevada, would ...

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What It Would Take to See the World Completely Differently

When the marine biologist Rachel Carson was a young girl, she discovered a fossilized shell while hiking around her family’s hi...

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For 110 years, climate change has been in the news. Are we finally ready to listen?

On August 14 1912, a small New Zealand newspaper published a short article announcing global coal usage was affecting our planet�...

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How sustainable are fake meats?

If you’re an environmentally aware meat-eater, you probably carry at least a little guilt to the dinner table. The meat on our p...

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The Era of Climate Change Has Created a New Emotion

above, an open-cut coal mine looks like some geological aberration, a sort of man-made desert, a recent volcanic eruption, or a k...

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The Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization’s Collapse

THE COMPUTER MODELING made it plain: If people continued to overextract finite resources, pollute on a massive scale, and balloon...

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The tiny islands leading the green transition

Just off the north coast of Northern Ireland, in the chilly waters of the Atlantic, lies a tiny, L-shaped island called Rathlin. I...

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In Tanzania, Carbon Offsets Preserve Forests and a Way of Life

Deep in the Rift Valley of East Africa, close to some of the most ancient human remains ever unearthed, one of the continent’s l...

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Supply chain issues are getting worse — and climate change is a main culprit

Original publication by Matthew Rozsa for salon.com on 14 May 2022 The baby formula shortage is one manifestation of a supply chai...

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Australia’s ‘Climate Election’ Finally Arrived. Will It Be Enough?

SYDNEY, Australia — A few minutes after taking the stage to declare victory in Australia’s election on Saturday, Anthony Alban...

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Spring time: why an ancient water system is being brought back to life in Spain

High in la Alpujarra, on the slopes of the majestic Sierra Nevada in Andalucía, the silence is broken only by the sound of a stre...

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