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Twelve Days That Didn’t Change the World
Appreciating nature’s beauty while we have two years left to save the planet
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The US Has the World's Highest Economic Losses From Weather Events
A new Swiss Re study ranks the US second in terms of percent of GDP economic losses
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What is Your Favorite Street in North America?
(And how you can follow the Conference on World Affairs debates online)
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Europe Warms Twice as Fast as Other Continents
Hundreds of temperature records broken all over Europe
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Why Vincent van Gogh Would Have Loved to Paint the Nature and Churches on My Island
While living in a small island village during springtime, I was inspired by nature, art, and returning birds
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Richard Serra’s Lasting Legacy of Exploring Artistic Boundaries
Richard Serra’s sculptures imprint themselves on your memories, and the first association isn’t the artist’s name, but instead, you think of the place…
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Half-a-Century of Shoreline Memories on a Warming Planet
A personal journey on this island’s climate-altered shores.
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How social media exploded after Kate's cancer announcement
There is support for Kate but also criticism, vile comments, and, for some, a sense of guilt.
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Trump Predicts a "Blood Bath" When He Loses; That’s Why He Should Lose
Donald Trump disrespects democracy, threatens with violence, and calls immigrants "animals." Who cares? We all should, but we have grown numb after…
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Stop Fixating on Kate's Photoshopping and Pay Attention to This Unaltered Reality: 365 Consecutive Days of Record-Breaking Global Sea…
Both graphs I used are deeply worrying, and it makes me wonder why we have all seen dozens of photos and articles about Kate's photoshopping while you…
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Life Lessons in These Foggy Times Where Confusion Rules While Clarity Fades
Watch your step when your clear view vanishes, and your once-familiar world becomes murky and disorienting. This happens in politics and the media when…
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Alexander Verbeek 🌍
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You Just Experienced The Warmest February Ever Measured on The Planet
February 2024 was the warmest February on record in the Copernicus ERA5 dataset.
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From COVID to Conflict: a Short History of The Last Four Years
On this day, four years ago, I could never have imagined how many rapid and fundamental changes would shape our destiny on this small, beautiful, and…
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US Invests 6 Billion Dollars in Clean Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
PFAS and Politics: A Tale of Corporate Interests vs. Public Health. At state and federal levels, examples in the news from the past 24 hours expose…
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