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Cutting Carbon Dioxide Isn’t Enough
According to data being gathered at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, which has been monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide...
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Science and Religion Can’t Be Reconciled
A few recent events, including the launch of Nautilus and this interesting thread on Brian Leiter’s blog, have brought...
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An Exploding Star, A Grain of Sand, and an Origin Story
Humans have created some pretty ingenious myths to explain the world around us: the sun and the moon chase...
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400 PPM: Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Reaches Prehistoric Levels
On May 2, after nightfall shut down photosynthesis for the day in Hawaii, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere...
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I Am Not This Body
Every time I look at my face in a magnified mirror in a hotel bathroom, I jump back in...
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That Elastic Term
Forty years after C.S. Holling gave academic status to the word “resilience,” the concept has found a home in...
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Bouncing Back May Be Tough, But So Are We
In 2005 the National Science Foundation brought together some unlikely collaborators—ecologists and psychologists among them—to talk about resilience. It...
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Nature’s Limits
The gorgeous red tomatoes, piled high in the hot West African sunshine, suggested a huge success. Just two years...
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After Catastrophe
For a lesson in the compounding effects of surprising events, go back to a March afternoon in 2011: A...
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Environmentalists Give Thumbs-Down to Facebook Co-Founder’s Advocacy Campaign
A number of environmental groups are giving a thumbs-down to the efforts of an advocacy group established earlier this...