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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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Air Pollution, COVID-19 and Earth Day
The Trump Administration wants to scale back on Clean Air Act enforcement—even as we learn that places with more pollution have more coronavirus deaths
The Pandemic Also Threatens Endangered Languages
Only three individuals speak a language from the Great Andamanese family. Will this irreplaceable heritage survive the new threat?
We Put Science Back into EPA Air Pollution Standards, But ...
So far, the agency administrator is ignoring it
The Carbon We Can’t Afford to Lose
We have protected areas for wildlife; we need to protect ecosystems whose death could release massive amounts of CO2 as well
March 2020: Earth’s Second Warmest March and Third Warmest Month on Record
This year is more than 70 percent likely to be the warmest on record...
The Coronavirus and Climate Action
Confronting global warming will take a completely different approach from confronting the pandemic
We’re Thinking about Climate Change the Wrong Way
Rather than convince other nations to “do their part,” the U.S. should develop clean energy technologies and make them cheap enough for everyone to adopt
First Category 5 Tropical Cyclone of 2020, Harold, Pounds Vanuatu
Harold’s 165-mph winds make it the fourth strongest tropical cyclone on record in the Southeast Pacific
New Hope for Migratory Shorebirds
A report from Guatemala
February 2020: Earth's 2nd Warmest February and 3rd Warmest Month on Record
Europe and Asia crush their all-time warmest winter records by a huge margin...
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