I’ve spent most of this year being pretty convinced that Donald Trump would be the 47th president of the United States. Even ...

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His return to the White House puts the world’s second-largest climate polluter on an emissions trajectory we can’t afford.

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Jennifer Doudna, the co-developer of CRISPR, says there’s a “coming revolution” in climate-adapted crops and animals.

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Seven states are set to implement laws supporting abortion access, but the future of reproductive rights in the US is unclear.

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The US, which is currently the world’s second-largest greenhouse-gas emitter and has added more climate pollution to the atmosphere than any other nation, is now very unlikely to hit Biden’s 2030 goal ...