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Elizabeth KolbertThe New Yorker |
In early 2023, climate scientists—and anyone else paying attention to the data—started to notice something strange. At the beginning of March,...
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Sometime in the next few weeks, the Department of the Treasury is expected to decide who—or, really, what—will qualify for a new set of tax...
In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Hurricane Otis crashed into the western coast of Mexico, just north of the resort city of Acapulco. A Category...
Last week, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that’s nominally about herring. Arguments will be heard this winter, in tandem with...