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William Nordhaus showed that the market offers the best chance for preventing global catastrophe form climate change.
It is misguided to blame armed conflict and violence on climate change alone.
The French president said he would eliminate all coal-fired plants in his country by 2021, while his US counterpart is pushing policies intended to make them more profitable. Either way, the laws of economics will win.
The globe is greening as plants grow faster in response to rising carbon dioxide. But a new analysis shows they aren’t using more water to do it - a rare piece of good news for our changing planet.
Generally conflicts are not caused by climate change. But it can lead to complex security risks.
Ethicist Peter Singer told Q&A that climate change-related sea level rises are “estimated to cause something like 750 million refugees just moving away from that flooding”. Is that accurate?
A world of warmer weather may be bad news for reproductive health and birth rates.
Most evidence shows that climate change is caused by humans and immigration is good for the economy. So why do many of us reject these notions anyway?
Environmental racism remains a reality in South Africa. It is poor, black citizens who live on the most damaged land and in the most polluted neighbourhoods.
What are the pressures on researchers that could lead to misrepresentation of facts? Do the “guardians need a guard”?
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