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Welcome to climate change

May 2019

A survivor’s guide to mitigation, adaptation, and suffering.

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Welcome to climate change

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How greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry
Seoul had a solution to the world’s energy problems. Then everything went wrong.
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The desperate race to cool the ocean before it’s too late
Holly Jean Buck is a fellow at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. This is an adapted excerpt from her upcoming book After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration (September 2019, Verso Books).
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The one number you need to know about climate change
The social cost of carbon could guide us toward intelligent policies—if only we knew what it was.
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The American Midwest will feed a warming world. But for how long?
Rising temperatures will endanger the US corn belt, a key source of calories for the growing global population.
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Inside Australia’s plan to survive bigger, badder bushfires
Unprecedented wildfires are breaking out all over the world. Is Australia leading the way in fighting them?
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India’s surging economy could doom climate efforts—unless richer nations step up
No matter how fast the country builds new solar and wind farms, that alone won’t be enough.
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Lessons from a genocide can prepare humanity for climate apocalypse
The bad news is that our slow-motion ecological catastrophe demands new ways of thinking. The good news? We’ve faced the end of the world before.
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India’s water crisis is already here. Climate change will compound it.
Droughts and floods have pushed the nation’s leaky, polluted, and half-done water systems to the brink.
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A Full Life
A science-fiction story about America in the age of climate change.

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- The “mind-boggling” task of protecting New York City from rising seas
  There are plans to fortify the city’s 520 miles of coast—but some of them will be unpopular.
  
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- Why seaweed is strangling Mexican tourism, and how science could help
  Sargassum is infesting Mexico’s coastline. Researchers are scrambling to stop an ecological crisis, and maybe even make something good of it.
  
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- The accident that led to the discovery of climate-change-proof coffee
  Extreme weather could wipe out existing breeds of coffee plants in Central America. But researchers are making genetic improvements.
  
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- What one woman’s quest to save her neighbors reveals about climate resilience
  The weather will get worse, but that doesn’t mean disasters have to.
  
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- How do cow herders spot water in the Sahara? With satellites, of course.
  Climate change makes it even harder to find water on the edge of the Sahara. Now herders in Mali rely on images from space to direct them to the nearest watering hole.
  
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- The economic argument behind the Green New Deal
  Economist Mariana Mazzucato explains how rethinking industrial policy could be key to tackling climate change.
  
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- Get ready for tens of millions of climate refugees
  Researchers are creating models of where people will move when climate shocks hit, but so far we’re just making educated guesses.
  
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- A powerful new model could make global warming estimates less vague
  One of the biggest sources of climate uncertainty is how clouds will behave. Caltech physicist Tapio Schneider is trying to give us some answers.
  
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- Our planetary health report card looks really grim
  We must do better.
  
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