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some good news: A pair of Quebec-born cheetahs, brothers Kumbe and Jabari, are now adapting to life under the African sun.
The siblings will be released in a rare, international “rewilding” project that conservationists hope will help ensure the future of the species, which has declined to fewer than 200 animals from around 1,500 in 1975.
By Richard Schiffman
Bill Gates is a man with a big agenda. He and his wife run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable foundation. It aims to eliminate diseases, boost food production, and end extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. As Gates writes in his latest book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need,” he gradually came to the realization that climate change poses a major threat to those goals.
It won’t be enough to just reduce emissions of CO2, as governments pledged to do in the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, Gates insists. The world’s wealthiest countries need to get all the way to zero carbon by the year 2050. That means that, in addition to radically slashing the production of greenhouse gases, we’ll have to start removing them from the atmosphere.
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Donald Wright is an associate professor at the University of New Brunswick.
Michael Mann knows what he’s talking about. A Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, he has dedicated his career to understanding the science of climate change. But he’s no egg head. Despite the harassment, intimidation, and the occasional death threat – one nutjob sent him an envelope containing white powder which, thank God, turned out to be cornstarch, not anthrax – Mann is not afraid of Big Oil and its bidders, making him a hero to climate activists.
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Politics and Policy
Prioritizing environmental justice, Biden signed an executive order establishing a White House interagency council on environmental justice, created an office of health and climate equity at Health and Human Services, and formed a separate environmental justice office at Justice. He took other actions, causing immediate pushback from the fossil fuel industry and its Congressional alli