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A World Transformed: The Impact of Land Allocation on Climate and Biodiversity
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Why A Green Revolution Isn't the Answer to Global Hunger
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Understanding the Record Lows in Antarctic Sea Ice
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How a Progressive Sales Tax Could Save the Planet
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What To Do: We Are Poised To Pass 1.5℃ Of Global Warming
World leaders propose four pivotal strategies to manage the impending climate overshoot, focusing on mitigation, adaptation, carbon removal, and exploring solar radiation management to restore a...
The Link Between Rising Temperatures and Extreme Rainfall Events
As temperatures rise, the warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor. Evaporation of water from land and oceans also increases. That water has to eventually come back to land and oceans.
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In 2000, Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen proposed that the epoch known as the Holocene, which started some 11,700 years ago, had reached its end.