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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all…

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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can…
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what…
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a…
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able…
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the…
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear…
What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do…
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

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