Climate Change
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POLITICS
China is positioned to lead on climate change as the US rolls back its policies
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Tufts University and Fang Zhang, Tufts University As the effects of climate change become more widespread…
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AMERICAS
In Brazil’s rainforests, the worst fires are likely still to come
By Robert T. Walker, University of Florida The number of fires this year in the Amazon is the highest since…
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AMERICAS
Good communication is a key part of disaster response
Shannon A. Bowen, University of South Carolina Behind the scenes during hurricanes and other disasters, scores of public information officers…
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AMERICAS
Dousing the sovereignty wildfire
By Jean Pisani-Ferry On the eve of the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, French President Emmanuel Macron described the Amazon…
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ENERGY
The coming clash between climate and trade
By Jean Pisani-Ferry The incoming president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has laid out a highly ambitious climate agenda.…
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AMERICAS
The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
By Catesby Holmes, The Conversation Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire…
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Editor's Picks
Our vanishing world: Glaciers
By Robert J. Burrowes Something is causing the worlds glaciers and mountain ice fields to melt. And, despite your first…
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AMERICAS
The Democrats need to have a climate-only TV debate. For Americans and for the rest of us
By Simone Tagliapietra When Catholics are busy choosing a new Pope the whole world watches Italy and when Americans are…
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AMERICAS
Fascism then and now
By John Scales Avery I would like to announce the publication of a new book, entitled “Fascism, Then and Now”.…
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ASIA
As more developing countries reject plastic waste exports, wealthy nations seek solutions at home
By Kate O’Neill, University of California, Berkeley Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from…
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