National Geographic - USA (2020-04)

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PESSIMIST’S GUIDE (^) | THE BIG IDEA Lessons to learn A college student wearing a gas mask “sniffs” a mag- nolia blossom in New ...

tide to send water gushing into the streets. According to projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ...

PESSIMIST’S GUIDE (^) | THE BIG IDEA And yet people haven’t just survived; by most measures, they’ve thrived. Globally, life exp ...

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In theory, this is possible. Most—perhaps all—of the world’s fossil fuel infrastructure could be replaced by solar cells, wind t ...

If people are doing better than they were in 1970, clearly the opposite is true for most other creatures. The two trends can be ...

PESSIMIST’S GUIDE (^) | DECODER PHOTO: REBECCA HALE, NGM STAFF COFFEE Almost three-quarters of cof- fee comes from small farms. ...

EVEN IN THE BEST growing conditions— with moderate weather, predictable rainfall, and rounded seasons—growing food is hard. Add ...

PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT): JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK; DUNCAN CLARK, NORTHWEST PASSAGE PROJECT, FUNDED B ...

LIGHT POLLUTION is now among the most chronic environmental perturbations on Earth. In 2016 scientists estimated that 99 percent ...

CHANGES WE DON’T SEE A PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS HOW HUMANS HAVE RESHAPED THE EARTH, EVEN IN PLACES FAR BELOW ITS SURFACE. PESSIMIS ...

I CAPTURED THIS IMAGE in the potash mines below Berezniki, a Russian town in central Siberia. Most people don’t have the visual ...

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ANIMALS (^) | PESSIMIST’S GUIDE ENDANGERED Gray crowned crane The population of this endangered African crane has dropped from m ...

EARTH DAY (^2070) PAGE 30 STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETE MULLER ...

AS THE PLACES WE’VE LOVED CHANGE, THE EMOTIONAL TOLL ON US IS ‘SOMETHING AKIN TO HOMESICKNESS.’ A STRETCH OF THE CHUKCHI SEA, BE ...

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The Mount Thorley Warkworth coal mine is one of several “super pit clusters” in Aus- tralia’s Hunter Valley. It operates 365 day ...

To make this portrait, photographer Pete Muller asked Hunter Valley resident John Lamb to show him the road he drives—miles out ...