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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

Polarizing Bears

How Environmentalists and Skeptics Misrepresent the Science on Polar Bears

· Zac Unger

Analysis

Electrify Africa!

Advocates Urge US Leaders to Act Soon on Energy Access Legislation

· Breakthrough Staff

Analysis

Off on the Wrong Foot

Why A Footprint Is A Poor Metaphor for Humanity’s Impact on the Planet

· Laura Jane Martin

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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