How Wildlife Help Combat the Climate Crisis

How Wildlife Help Combat the Climate Crisis
By conserving wildlife, from otters and elephants to tigers and oysters, we help protect the planet, including ourselves.

Published November 28, 2022 at 06:00PM
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The Doctor Who Wasn’t There

The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.The Doctor Who Wasn’t There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for—and skepticism of—electronic media in health and medicine. Over the past century, a series of new technologies promised to democratize access to healthcare. From the humble telephone to the connected smartphone, from FM radio to wireless wearables, from cable television to the “electronic brains” of networked mainframe computers: each new platform has promised a radical reformation of the healthcare landscape. With equal attention to the history of technology, the history of medicine, and the politics and economies of American healthcare, physician and historian Jeremy A. Greene explores the role that electronic media play, for better and for worse, in the past, present, and future of our health. Today’s telehealth devices are far more sophisticated than the hook-and-ringer telephones of the 1920s, the radios that broadcasted health data in the 1940s, the closed-circuit televisions that enabled telemedicine in the 1950s, or the online systems that created electronic medical records in the 1960s. But the ethical, economic, and logistical concerns they raise are prefigured in the past, as are the gaps between what was promised and what was delivered. Each of these platforms also produced subtle transformations in health and healthcare that we have learned to forget,...

COP27 wrap up: funding the end of the world and other thoughts

COP27 wrap up: funding the end of the world and other thoughts
All international climate talks begin with high hopes, and COP27 was seen as the moment for implementation and climate justice. Instead, it may be remembered as the COP of unmet expectations.

Published November 22, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Predators of predators: the snaring crisis threatening the survival of Asia's big cats

Predators of predators: the snaring crisis threatening the survival of Asia's big cats
Snares, rudimentary traps that people have set by the millions on forest floors and snowy mountain pathways across Asia, are barely visible to the eye and a fatal danger to all wildlife.

Published November 20, 2022 at 06:00PM
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States of Plague

States of Plague: States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of  pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic novel The Plague has become a new kind of literary touchstone. Surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, readers sought answers within the pages of Camus’s 1947 tale about an Algerian city gripped by an epidemic. Many found in it a story about their own lives—a book to shed light on a global health crisis. In thirteen linked chapters told in alternating voices, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris hold the past and present of The Plague in conversation, discovering how the novel has reached people in their current moment.  Kaplan’s chapters explore the book’s tangled and vivid history, while Marris’s are drawn to the ecology of landscape and language. Through these pages, they find that their sense of Camus evolves under the force of a new reality, alongside the pressures of illness, recovery, concern, and care in their own lives. Along the way, Kaplan and Marris examine how the novel’s original allegory might resonate for a new generation of readers who have experienced a global pandemic.  They describe how they learned to contemplate the skies of a plague spring, to examine the body politic and%...

How reframing recycling systems can protect people and the planet

How reframing recycling systems can protect people and the planet
A new program would transfer recycling responsibilities to the companies that use these materials for their products and packaging.

Published November 14, 2022 at 06:00PM
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How healthy is the Upper Rio Grande?

How healthy is the Upper Rio Grande?
Water overuse, infrastructure, changes in the amount of rainfall, increased temperatures, and the climate crisis are decreasing the amount of water that has historically flowed in the Rio Grande.

Published November 10, 2022 at 06:00PM
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The Amazon in crisis: Forest loss threatens the region and the planet

The Amazon in crisis: Forest loss threatens the region and the planet


Published November 07, 2022 at 06:00PM
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What to expect from this year’s international climate talks

What to expect from this year’s international climate talks
Ambitions and promises need to translate into action, and at this COP, we will be looking for moments where we can set the stage to begin the real work and challenges around decarbonization.

Published November 01, 2022 at 07:00PM
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The Doctor Who Wasn’t There

The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.The Doctor Who Wasn’t There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for—and skepticism of—electronic media in health and medicine. Over the past century, a series of new technologies promised to democratize access to healthcare. From the humble telephone to the connected smartphone, from FM radio to wireless wearables, from cable television to the “electronic brains” of networked mainframe computers: each new platform has promised a radical reformation of the healthcare landscape. With equal attention to the history of technology, the history of medicine, and the politics and economies of American healthcare, physician and historian Jeremy A. Greene explores the role that electronic media play, for better and for worse, in the past, present, and future of our health. Today’s telehealth devices are far more sophisticated than the hook-and-ringer telephones of the 1920s, the radios that broadcasted health data in the 1940s, the closed-circuit televisions that enabled telemedicine in the 1950s, or the online systems that created electronic medical records in the 1960s. But the ethical, economic, and logistical concerns they raise are prefigured in the past, as are the gaps between what was promised and what was delivered. Each of these platforms also produced subtle transformations in health and healthcare that we have learned to forget,...

Aquaculture is on the rise, and so are efforts to improve it

Aquaculture is on the rise, and so are efforts to improve it
WWF works with large retailers, producers, and associations to secure commitments to support conversion-free farmed seafood.

Published October 31, 2022 at 07:00PM
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