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Biden restores roadless protection to the Tongass, North America’s largest rainforest

Beverly Law, Oregon State University Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably...

Protecting half of the planet is the best way to fight...

Greg Asner, Arizona State University Humans are dismantling and disrupting natural ecosystems around the globe and changing Earth’s climate. Over the past 50 years, actions...

An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our...

Benjamin Z. Houlton, University of California, Davis Why has Earth’s climate remained so stable over geological time? The answer just might rock you. Rocks, particularly the...

The Madrid climate conference’s real failure was not getting a broad...

Robert Stavins, Harvard Kennedy School Press accounts of the Madrid climate conference that adjourned on Dec. 15 are calling it a failure in the face...

To solve climate change and biodiversity loss, we need a Global...

Greg Asner, Arizona State University Earth’s cornucopia of life has evolved over 550 million years. Along the way, five mass extinction events have caused serious...

Sea creatures store carbon in the ocean – could protecting them...

Heidi Pearson, University of Alaska Southeast As the prospect of catastrophic effects from climate change becomes increasingly likely, a search is on for innovative ways...

An Indian perspective on the Poland climate meeting: Not much help...

Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan The international climate change conference that concluded in Katowice, Poland on Dec. 15 had limited ambitions and expectations – especially...

Curbing climate change: Why it’s so hard to act in time

Timothy H. Dixon, University of South Florida This summer I worked on the Greenland ice sheet, part of a scientific experiment to study surface melting...

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