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Nature Better nature through technology.

Conservation, land use, wildfire and climate, and the politics and economics of development, assembled into one category: the case that intensifying human activity on less land is how wild nature gets room to recover.

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    Navigating NEPA

    387 appellate NEPA cases and 1,800 opinions, filterable by state, project type and plaintiff, with the full dataset downloadable.

Nature work

Research, analysis and everything on the record across wildfires, climate change, decoupling and more.

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Analysis

Land Grabs for Carbon

Are carbon offset megadeals the future of conservation in Africa?

· Vijaya Ramachandran, Alex Smith, Satvika Mahajan

Analysis

The Social Feedback Loops That Constrain Climate Science

Self-reinforcing feedback loops in the climate system garner a lot of attention, but less-appreciated social feedback loops affect the generation of climate science itself, with real consequences

· Patrick Brown

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Who leads this work

Ted Nordhaus Founder and President Email Latest: The Original Environmental Economist: RIP Uncle Bill
Vijaya Ramachandran Director, Energy and Development Email Latest: It's Time for the World Bank to Scrap Its Climate Finance Targets