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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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Issues

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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

Rethinking Sustainable Beef

New Study Shows More Productive Beef Has Lower Carbon Footprint

· Dan Blaustein-Rejto, Linus Blomqvist

Analysis

The GML Isn't All Bad

To promote responsible mining, it is time to go beyond bashing the General Mining Law of 1872

· Peter Cook, Seaver Wang

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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