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Climate change has been ignored for too long, and transformational change is coming – the question is whether countries transform themselves for the better or wait for climate change to transform them. That’s one of the key messages from a new international assessment of the world’s ability to adapt to rising global temperatures.
Edward Carr, one of the report’s authors, explains the findings and describes the changes people are already contending with around the world. Read Carr’s analysis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate report, then dive deeper into the impact climate change is having on vulnerable residents in the U.S. and elsewhere through heat waves, rising sea levels and storms. Another article checks in on the $100 billion commitment developed countries made to help poorer nations adapt. We also have a refresher on the terminology you might hear when scientists talk about climate change.
And our coverage of the war in Ukraine continues, with an analysis of the potential of the West's harsh sanctions on Russia, the history of misusing the word "genocide" for political reasons and more.
Also today:
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Stacy Morford
Environment + Climate Editor
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Weather and climate extremes are already here, and communities will have to adapt.
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Edward R. Carr, Clark University
An author of the report explains the damaging effects climate change is already having and why adaptation is essential.
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Ethics + Religion
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Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan
A Holocaust historian explains why Ukrainian history needs to be understood in terms of both past violence against Jews as well as the state’s pluralistic vision.
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Health + Medicine
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Diana Tordoff, University of Washington; Arin Collin, University of Washington
A wealth of evidence supports the protective mental health effects of gender-affirming care, despite ongoing legislation that asserts otherwise.
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Economy + Business
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David Cortright, University of Notre Dame; George A. Lopez, University of Notre Dame
By working with allies, the Biden administration has been able to place severe sanctions on Russia – including targeting Putin’s inner circle and banning banks from SWIFT.
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Emily Hamilton, George Mason University
Housing affordability has been an important public policy issue since the onset of the pandemic. Economist Emily Hamilton explains the research on some popular affordable housing policies.
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Arts + Culture
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Rami Toubia Stucky, University of Virginia
As long as you don’t tune out the world and protect your hearing, it’s hard to overdo it.
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Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
The recent US ban on avocado imports from Mexico underscores the risks of being so heavily reliant on a product that comes from one region in one country that’s rife with violence and corruption.
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Politics + Society
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Alexis Karteron, Rutgers University - Newark
A constitutional law professor provides insight on what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, could mean for how that court works.
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Jaro Bilocerkowycz, University of Dayton
The days of Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe disappeared at the end of the Cold War nearly 30 years ago. It appears Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to start a new Cold War..
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Scott Jasper, Naval Postgraduate School
Russian information warriors have the capacity to damage critical US infrastructure systems.
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John Davenport, Fordham University
Existing alliances arose in the wake of World War II, when global politics were very different and today’s challenges were yet unimagined.
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Alexander Hinton, Rutgers University - Newark
Vladimir Putin has justified his invasion of Ukraine with baseless claims that Ukraine is committing genocide. It isn’t the first time a political leader has cried genocide for political means.
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