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Michael Dourson receives funds from chemical makers and plans to develop and publish studies that benefit firms
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How Israel's wars define life for Palestinians in Gaza.
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Over the past 15 years, the world has seen a financial crisis, the rise of populist politics and a fracturing of the world economic order. Sounds all a bit pre-WWII, right?
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By Dana Drugmand Last year’s record-shattering Canadian wildfire season was directly linked to human-caused climate change, according to a new study, which warns that the climate crisis may be fueling extreme fires decades earlier than previously expected. This is the largest assessment specifica...
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Climate change will top the agenda as leaders of 18 nations meet in Tonga from August 26.
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The photograph is now meaningless as evidence. We are not prepared.
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As Israel’s latest evacuation order sows terror in hearts of residents, Maram Humaid reflects on the fear and despair.
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After an investigation that ran in The New York Times, the industry is edging toward change. But companies in western India are reluctant to abandon an abusive labor system.
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Deaths from heat could triple in Europe by 2100 under current climate policies, mostly among people living in southern parts of the continent, according to a study published in The Lancet Public Health journal.
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A 1.6C of warming is now the best case scenario as constraints in implementing policies in some countries make the Paris goal impossible.
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The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.
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“Race science” has returned.
Meet the new right, same as the old right.
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The global revolution enters adolescence It has been ten years since the Black residents of Ferguson, Missouri lit a QwikTrip on West Florrisant Avenue on fire in the memory of Mike Brown and thereby set the whole country alight. It is fourteen years since Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak were
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