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Humanity’s survival will be “impossible” without the United States rejoining the Paris Agreement and achieving “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050, as the incoming Biden administration has pledged
Michael Mann, one of the world’s preeminent climate experts, says averting a global climate catastrophe would be “essentially impossible” if Donald Trump is re-elected. There is no more important way for US citizens to exercise agency than to vote
Some government and corporate officials appear to have chosen this moment of anxiety and distraction to engineer financial giveaways and regulatory rollbacks that under normal circumstances would be bitterly contested
Trump and his administration may end up provoking the Washington press corps, and the mainstream media, in general, into becoming an adversarial press, which is not what they want to do
At first the women weren’t sure they could do it. Or should do it. Many in the village agreed. Digging holes, planting…
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