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  • | A firefighting crew works to control a blaze in Sydney Australia in November BRETT HEMMINGSGETTY IMAGES | MR Online

    Long shaped by fire, Australia enters a perilous new era

    Originally published: Yale Environment 360 on January 16, 2020 by Fred Pearce (more by Yale Environment 360) (Posted Jan 29, 2020)

    Australia has always been a dry continent where fire has played an important ecological role. But the latest massive conflagrations there are evidence that a hotter climate has thrust Australia into a new normal where fires will keep burning on an unprecedented scale.

  • | A coral reef near the Indonesian island of Bali SHUTTERSTOCK | MR Online

    Are numbers of species a true measure of ecosystem health?

    Originally published: Yale Environment 360 on November 12, 2019 by Fred Pearce (more by Yale Environment 360) (Posted Dec 02, 2019)

    A recent study that found no general decline in the numbers of species in individual ecosystems has sparked controversy. Some scientists see it as evidence of how species adapt, while others see it as a sign that common invasive species, such as rats and mosquitoes, are the real winners.

  • | Temperature Anamolies | MR Online

    Temperature anomalies arranged by country 1900 – 2016

    Originally published: Yale Environment 360 on August 2, 2017 by Antti Lipponen (more by Yale Environment 360) (Posted Aug 06, 2017)

    This video illustrates how drastically temperatures in each of the world’s 191 countries have changed over the last century.

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  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
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    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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