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For Sale: Planet (Used) for the Bargain Price of $ 1 Billion
Art of the Deal expert sets the price for our planet at only one billion dollars
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How Nature on My Island Adapts to the New Climate Conditions
Jogging in the sandy dunes of a changing island.
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Bridging Traditions on the Camino de Santiago
Curing anger and mad dogs on the tranquil river flowing to Pamplona
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Cool Planets are Hard to Find
In three months, wildfires in the US already destroyed a larger area than last year in six months
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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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