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In El Salvador and beyond, an unsolved kidney disease mystery
The ballooning epidemic has swamped hospitals and wiped out whole families. Baffled researchers can't agree on a cause.
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Who are the children most at risk from climate change?
Climate change affects everyone, but today's children are the ones who will be left to deal with the most disastrous consequences in the future.
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Will AI save us from ourselves?
Humans are wired to deal with immediate threats like that what's that moving in the bushes. However, for long-term threats like climate change, people suffer from cognitive biases that often make us discount the extent of the threat or turn us into bystanders as we wait for someone else to deal with the problem.
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Staying at home on planet Earth
The pandemic tells us that the right to shelter and habitat is an urgent and essential one, for humans and other creatures
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Trump’s coronavirus musings put scientists on edge
The president’s habit of favoring his own judgments over those of the experts is vastly complicating efforts to fight the outbreak.
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Coronavirus is what you get when you ignore science
Scientists are all we have left. Pray for them.
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Spread of virus could hasten the great coming apart of globalization
As the coronavirus hits Europe, questions arise about dependency on China, the risks of air travel, climate change and a new racism in populist politics.
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