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But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.
Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?
In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.
Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.
Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.
A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.
Physicians have been fighting for health justice for decades. To succeed, we need practical models for collectively remaking our systems of care.
Beyond carbon emissions and safety, the debate must also confront how the choices we make now constrain the kind of world we can build in the future.
Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.
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