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Since 1995, the U.S. economy has more than doubled, yet the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions have gone down.
Keep that in mind as climate change returns to the news over the coming weeks, with leaders from countries around the world gathering for the 30th annual U.N. climate conference in Brazil. Globally, emissions are still rising, and temperatures are rising with them. The international goals that almost every country in the world agreed to 10 years ago in the Paris climate agreement seem far away.
Yet countries have been making progress − some of it without really trying.
The U.S. is an example. Valerie Thomas, an engineer at Georgia Tech, explains some of the shifts that allowed emissions to fall at the same time the economy and population grew. Her charts tell a story about power and money.
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Stacy Morford
Senior Environment, Climate and Energy Editor
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Wind power near Dodge City, Kan.
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Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
A fast drop in coal use played a big role, but there was more, as these charts show.
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Politics + Society
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Gibbs Knotts, Coastal Carolina University; Drew Kurlowski, Coastal Carolina University
Congress has played an important role in holding federal agencies accountable since the late 1700s, but oversight can also devolve into a political circus.
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Chris Lamb, Indiana University
President Barack Obama’s mockery of Donald Trump in 2011 may have fueled the former real estate mogul’s run for president and his desire to leave his mark on the White House.
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Health + Medicine
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Marisha Burden, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
The current US health care system burdens doctors with heavy patient loads, more administrative work and additional off-hour demands. Doctor-patient interactions suffer as a result.
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R. Amanda Cooper, University of Connecticut
Treating people with dementia as full, thriving human beings requires awareness of stigma and simple communication strategies.
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Environment + Energy
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Alcina Johnson Sudagar, Washington University in St. Louis
Breweries nationwide create waste at several stages of the beer-making process. Repurposing parts of this waste could improve antibacterial drugs.
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Economy + Business
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Daniel Schneider, Harvard Kennedy School; David Weil, Brandeis University; Harvard Kennedy School
A first-of-its-kind study finds Amazon’s delivery drivers earn less and face more instability than their unionized counterparts.
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Jianna Jin, University of Notre Dame
When it comes to buying sex toys, diarrhea medication and and acne cream, consumers like the impersonal touch.
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Ethics + Religion
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Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton
Landor v. Louisiana, one of this year’s highest-profile religious freedom cases, underscores how complex legal protections for free exercise are in the US today.
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International
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Benjamin Neimark, Queen Mary University of London; Kate Mackintosh, University of California, Los Angeles
International law is starting to reflect a growing global consensus on the need to recognise the climate effects of armed conflicts.
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From the archive️
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Joshua Kluever, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Zohran Mamdani won New York’s mayoral race as a democratic socialist. This article from 2021 provides a short history of American socialism and the influence of today’s Democratic Socialists of America party.
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