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Culture Change Needed to Avert Growing Disaster Risk
By the Editor on November 28, 2012A culture change is needed if the benefits of development, such as new jobs and hospitals, are not to...
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James Carroll: The Earth Experiment
By the Editor on November 26, 2012American denial of climate change hit bottom this month. Hurricane Sandy was the most powerful instance yet of mundane...
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‘Anti-Thanksgiving’ Event at UVA Raises Conservatives’ Eyebrows
By the Editor on November 21, 2012The American Indian Student Union at the University of Virginia has upset some conservative students on campus with an...
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With Economy Trumping Emissions, Obama Plans Climate Education Push
By the Editor on November 15, 2012From Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth blog at the New York Times: President Obama’s first long discussion of human-driven global...
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Goals for Science in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
By the Editor on November 15, 2012The UN Secretary-General’s high-level panel on life after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) — the Post-2015 Development Agenda —...
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Bill McKibben Proposes Fossil Energy Divestment Drive
By the Editor on November 14, 2012The highly influential environment activist Bill McKibben is proposing a fossil energy divestment campaign, on the model of the...
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A Match Made in Cyberspace: How Networks Nurture Science
By the Editor on November 14, 2012With the growth of online science networks, geography and economics no longer dictate how research is undertaken or published....
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Why Conservatives Turned Against Science
By the Editor on November 6, 2012A prediction: When all the votes have been counted and the reams of polling data have been crunched, analyzed,...
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It Took Sandy for the U.S. to Debate Science
By the Editor on November 2, 2012Until this week climate change was sadly absent from the presidential election discourse, even though scientific reports have linked...
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Will Hurricane Sandy Be Our Wake-Up Call?
By the Editor on November 2, 2012We’ve had two once-in-a-century storms within a decade. Hurricane Sandy seems likely to become the second-costliest storm in U.S....