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The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, covering an area roughly the size of Australia. And yet it and other large ecosystems could be gone within our lifetime. In a new paper published ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Johnny Appleseed’s heart was in the right place when he walked all over the ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Johnny Appleseed’s heart was in the right place when he walked all over the early United States planting fruit ...