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Are we in a "Sixth Extinction"?
Stanford Earth professor Jon Payne puts modern extinction in context by comparing them with Earth's five previous mass extinctions.
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New research shows climate change has wiped out seven years of improvements in agricultural productivity over the past 60 years.
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Coal use is down dramatically in the United States and the European Union, and renewable energy is gaining traction. But rising natural gas and oil use in 2019 increased the world’s carbon dioxide emissions modestly for a third straight year.