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correction to all pixels in the southern Amazon. Credit: Doug Morton and NASA's Earth Observatory ...

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conditioning to survive at all on the hottest day in the hottest heat wave every decade or so? Starts to happen ...

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directly determining a social discount rate for global welfare." So why does anyone care at all about ...

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there is not a one-size-fits-all approach." Groffman added, "The management of urban and ...

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right? Their war on science has ended? Not so. Friends of the Earth has now declared war on all of synthetic ...

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they all go out to dinner. The original settlement, the endangered species listing, was negotiated ...

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attention; which is worse for the world, eating all the excess food or throwing it away? The ecological ...

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deep blue sea. Due to economic realities, essentially all scientists chose Option 1. Understanding that ...

Blog Post - John Droz - Nov 20 2010 - 10:00am

crop yields for wheat, barley and oats in tonnes per acre are all at their highest since 2000 this year ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 9 2019 - 11:00am

all the usual nonsense that is primarily there for show and the careers of the involved, but none of ...

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