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Articles in Science & Nature tagged with Environment and Climate

But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.

David S. Jones

Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?

Julie Michelle Klinger

In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.

Ndongo Samba Sylla, Daniela Gabor

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.

Marissa Grunes
Sunlight-friendly architecture could heat and illuminate buildings without expending any electricity.
David McDermott Hughes

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.

Mark Bould

A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.

Emily Kern

Physicians have been fighting for health justice for decades. To succeed, we need practical models for collectively remaking our systems of care.

Wendy Johnson

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.

Samuel Miller McDonald

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

Kyle Harper

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