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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

Energetic Africa

What Obama & the UN Should Do on Energy for Sub-Saharan Africa

· Breakthrough Staff

Analysis

Fighting to Breathe

New WHO Report Says Air Pollution from Cooking Caused 4.3 Million Premature Deaths

· Gwynn Guilford

Analysis

Pleistocene Dreams

George Monbiot on Rewilding the Planet

· Jennifer Sahn

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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