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Tracking the transition: The ‘forgotten’ emissions undoing the work of Australia’s renewable energy boom

Hugh Saddler, Australian National University; Frank Jotzo, Australian National University

Renewables form an ever-greater share of the electricity mix. But elsewhere in the energy sector – in transport, industry and buildings – emissions reduction is very slow.

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Conservation solutions in paradise: Jamaica’s Oracabessa Bay Fishing Sanctuary

The coastal ecosystem of the Caribbean is as unique as the region’s year-round humid tropical climate. On the island of Jamaica, picturesque deep-blue waters and rich biodiversity are among the country’s top tourism draws. That has endured despite the industry’s forced shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) indicates 1.1 million […]
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Big bioacoustics boost: Cornell University program receives $24 million donation

The rapidly growing field of bioacoustics received a big boost when the Cornell Lab of Ornithology announced a gift of $24 million to support its Center for Conservation Bioacoustics program, which was founded in the 1980s to gather information about ecosystem health and animal communication through sound. Like other sorts of sensing technology—satellite imagery of […]
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Brazil’s Uru-eu-wau-wau document COVID-19 victory with new video

The Amazon Indigenous group — utilizing lessons learned from the disease-ridden contact period — is protecting itself from the pandemic ravaging Brazil, and documenting its success story on video.
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Chinese special economic zones hotspots for wildlife trafficking, surveys say

SINGAPORE — Special economic zones set up to promote trade between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors are facilitating a black-market trade in wildlife products, according to watchdog group TRAFFIC. Tens of thousands of prohibited wildlife parts and products are being sold across open and unregulated markets in five Southeast Asian countries, with a significant […]
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Podcaster Tuli Amakali on the African white-backed vulture

Tuli Amakali is an podcaster and software developer who lives in Windhoek, Namibia. His podcast, Conversations About Nothing, explores opinions, in-depth reviews as well as interviews with influential people around the globe. In his spare time, he also hosts a weekly pub quiz show, plays sports and spends time with those he loves. Amakali voiced […]
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Slash-and-burn clearing nears Indigenous park as Brazil’s fire season ignites

Situated deep in the middle of Brazil, Xingu Indigenous Park encompasses some of the most biodiverse rainforest in the country and is home to dozens of Indigenous communities and a multitude of wildlife. It also sits in the country’s infamous “Arc of Deforestation,” a vast swath of land heavily degraded by industrial agriculture that stretches […]
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Conservation solutions in paradise: Jamaica’s Oracabessa Bay Fishing Sanctuary

The coastal ecosystem of the Caribbean is as unique as the region’s year-round humid tropical climate. On the island of Jamaica, picturesque deep-blue waters and rich biodiversity are among the country’s top tourism draws. That has endured despite the industry’s forced shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) indicates 1.1 million […]
Read on »

Big bioacoustics boost: Cornell University program receives $24 million donation

The rapidly growing field of bioacoustics received a big boost when the Cornell Lab of Ornithology announced a gift of $24 million to support its Center for Conservation Bioacoustics program, which was founded in the 1980s to gather information about ecosystem health and animal communication through sound. Like other sorts of sensing technology—satellite imagery of […]
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‘Conservation litigation’ tries to put a true price on wildlife crime

Gibbons, hornbills, komodo dragons and even Sumatran orangutans — these are just a few of the animals once kept illegally behind bars at a small zoo in North Sumatra, Indonesia. In 2019, police raided the zoo for operating and keeping protected species without appropriate permits, and the facility eventually closed down. More than a year […]
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Final court ruling orders Indonesian government to publish plantation data

JAKARTA — An Indonesian court has upheld a landmark 2017 ruling that all plantation data and maps in the country must be made publicly available — a ruling that the government continues to defy. The decision, which rejects the government’s appeal against the earlier verdict, marks the latest development in a long-running fight by civil […]
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Brazil’s Uru-eu-wau-wau document COVID-19 victory with new video

The Amazon Indigenous group — utilizing lessons learned from the disease-ridden contact period — is protecting itself from the pandemic ravaging Brazil, and documenting its success story on video.
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BY Jessica Kutz, High Country News

In underground “toad medicine circles” a psychedelic collected from the Sonoran Desert toad has become the latest trendy shortcut to spiritual awakening. But with the impacts of climate change and rapid urbanization, over-collection of the already-threatened species could have serious consequences. Read on »

 

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Persistent Plastic, Pelagic Podcast,
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If you regularly read this space, you know we don’t conform to any sort of formula. Whatever we want to say, we say. This week, I just want to make you laugh, or at least groan.

An old sea captain was sitting on a bench near the wharf when a young man walked up and sat down.

The young man had spiked hair and each spike was a different color: green, red, orange, blue, and yellow.

After a while, the young man noticed that the captain was staring at him.

“What’s the matter, old timer, never done anything wild in your life?”

The old captain replied, “Got drunk once and married a parrot. I was just wondering if you were my son!”

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This Week’s Stories

The Haunting Nature of Plastics

A lyrical meditation on our most insidious creation.

by Meera Subramanian • 5,000 words / 25 mins

The Sound Aquatic Episode 3: Plenty of Fish

Swiping right in the deep blue sea.

by Elin Kelsey, Katrina Pyne, and Amorina Kingdon • 26 mins • Listen here or with your podcast app

Ancient Gardens Persist in British Columbia’s Forests

Indigenous-managed landscapes retain higher biodiversity than surrounding areas a century after the people who kept them were displaced.

by Jessa Gamble • 800 words / 4 mins

In Mexico, Dive Tourism Is Worth as Much as Fishing

The surprising value of the country’s dive tourism industry gives another reason to protect its marine ecosystems.

by Ilima Loomis • 650 words / 3 mins

One Great Shot: Shark Scratching Post

Off Mexico’s Baja California, a school of fish takes advantage of a bull shark’s rough skin.

by Henley Spiers • a quick read with one great photo



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The third episode of our five-part podcast, The Sound Aquatic, landed this week. Listen on our site or subscribe now through your favorite podcast app.

If you like your crustaceans orange, purple, and asymmetrical, this is the crab for you. Granular claw crabs hide out in mussel beds, under coralline algae, or even squished between giant anemones in the intertidal zone to keep their soft bellies safe from probing bird beaks. While they each have one formidable claw, it’s typically used for protection and is not the primary tool for catching food. Instead, the crabs use other appendages to filter tiny bits of organic matter out of the water. If you find one, there might be another nearby—granular claw crabs often stick with a buddy.

This colorful crustacean was found on Calvert Island, British Columbia, during the first joint bioblitz (a focused effort to make field observations of biodiversity) held by the Hakai Institute and the Smithsonian Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO). MarineGEO does field research on marine biodiversity with various partner organizations, and some of their data is now publicly available on iNaturalist, a community science database. The MarineGEO iNaturalist Project showcases the weird and wonderful creatures found at partner locations around the world, including the Hakai Institute’s ecological observatories in British Columbia.

Everyone—from scientists to naturalist neophytes—can participate in iNaturalist. Use it to learn more about the plants and animals you encounter and contribute to biodiversity science by signing up at inaturalist.org.

Photo by Josh Silberg



A Bit of Fun, Just for the Halibut

by Liz Climo • thelittleworldofliz.com • www.facebook.com/LizClimo

What We’re Reading

Fifteen years ago, a team of scientists reached “peak pessimism” and mathematically projected in a widely publicized paper a global fisheries collapse by 2048. This year, on World Oceans Day, the lead author of that study, Boris Worm, writes that he now has reason to hope that we might “have a fighting chance to leave an ocean to our children that is more abundant, more productive and more resilient than the one we inherited.” (Science, The Hill)

Although an oil spill has thus far been averted, a burning cargo ship off Sri Lanka has lost tonnes of plastic pellets, aka nurdles, and they’re coating beaches in knee-high drifts. Sri Lankan researcher Asha de Vos has been tracking the nurdles as they come ashore. (Mongabay)

And speaking of things falling off ships and into the ocean, 3,000 shipping containers were lost into the Pacific Ocean alone last winter. (The Revelator)

On July 3, the European Union is banning the sale of 10 plastic products that commonly wash up on the continent’s shores. It’s part of the EU’s comprehensive and aggressive strategy to tackle plastic waste. (Yale360)

A new study shows that shorebird chicks know when to be quiet, and thus avoid predation, even before they’ve hatched. (Audubon)

Two marine scientists weigh in with four actions for how Canada could “hardwire” the oceans to meet the country’s commitments to climate change. (Globe and Mail)

New research points to a mysterious mass extinction 19 million years ago, from which shark diversity has not recovered. (New York Times)

The World Health Organization had good intentions with this visual explainer about vaccine equity, but it has agitated shark researchers and advocates in a big way. They’re concerned the PSA feeds into the pervasive misunderstandings about sharks and could further fuel their persecution.

 

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UK promises vaccines to climate negotiators amid G7 diplomacy
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After months of speculation, the UK is finally revealing some of its planning to Covid-proof Cop26.

Together with the UN, the UK is exploring options to provide vaccines to "accredited delegations" that would be unable to get them otherwise.

The news was welcomed by diplomats in developing countries for whom full participation in the critical climate talks, scheduled in November, hinges on equal vaccine access for poorer nations. But their optimism is cautious.

It remains unclear whether vaccines will be offered outside official government delegations to observers, civil society groups and journalists from low-income countries attending the talks.

Some negotiators are still wondering whether they will need to quarantine upon arrival in the UK if border restrictions continue to apply in the autumn.

And even if nearly all Cop26 participants are vaccinated, it remains unclear what protocols would be put in place if negotiators tested positive and were asked to isolate or if someone fell seriously ill.

Ensuring the safe and full participation of developing country delegates, although critical, is only one small part of the issue at stake. One African diplomat told Climate Home News the decision to offer vaccines to climate delegations was “an insignificant gesture" in comparison to the scale of the effort needed to vaccinate the entire population of low-income countries.

Vaccine access has risen to the top of agenda for the leaders of the G7 group of rich nations, meeting for a long weekend in a hotel overlooking a beach in a pristine part of UK's southern coast to address the world's most pressing issues: the response and recovery to Covid-19 and climate change.

They are expected to agree a plan to turbocharge vaccine aid and pledge a billion doses to poorer nations by the end of 2022. The US has promised 500 million doses of the jab and the UK 100 million doses within the next year.

As Oxfam's pan-Africa programme director Peter Kamalingin told reporters earlier this week: "The G7 is a test of global solidarity. If we don't address this pandemic, it's going to be much more difficult to address the climate crisis."

Africa accounts for under 1% of the over 2.1 billion doses administered globally, according to the World Health Organisation.


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The SME Climate Hub and the UK Prime Minister and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have launched the Together for our Planet Business Climate Leaders’ campaign to encourage the region’s small businesses to halve their emissions by 2030 and become net zero by 2050 or sooner. Learn about the campaign and how small businesses

 

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Exxon’s search for oil amid rising seas
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About 100 miles off the coast of Guyana, along the northern edge of South America, a new exploratory well is being drilled on behalf of ExxonMobil. The drilling takes aim at a 9 billion-barrel oilfield recently discovered in the waters off Guyana. Exxon is now putting Guyana at the heart of its plans to press on hunting for new fossil fuel supplies despite the climate crisis. Sharon Kelly reports.

Meanwhile, a new report finds that the productivity of ExxonMobil’s wells in the Permian basin declined in 2019, raising “troubling questions about the quality” of its assets. Exxon has long described its Permian holdings as “world class,” and the company prides itself on being an industry leader in both size and profitability. Yet, it’s wells in the region produced less oil on average in 2019 than they did in 2018, according to a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Nick Cunningham explains.

Finally, in case you missed it, more than 2,000 people began gathering at an undisclosed location in Northern Minnesota earlier this week, answering a call from Indigenous Anishinaabe people and a coalition of environmental groups to disrupt the construction of the Line 3 pipeline. Nearly 200 people were arrested while Indigenous and environmental groups, and even some elected officials, condemned the aggressive use of a helicopter to disperse protesters. Read more here.

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Oil Drilling in the ‘Land of Water’: ExxonMobil Hunts for More Fossil Fuels in Guyana Amid Sea Level Rise Fears
— By Sharon Kelly (7 min. read) —
About 100 miles off the coast of Guyana, along the northern edge of South America, the drillship Stena Carron spent Saturday, June 5 drilling a new exploratory well on behalf of ExxonMobil. The drilling takes aim at a 9 billion-barrel oilfield recently discovered in the waters off Guyana. Exxon is now putting Guyana at the heart of its plans to press on hunting for new fossil fuel supplies despite the climate crisis.

Meanwhile, much of Guyana itself was underwater following heavy rains that unleashed historic flooding. Over 25,000 households — in a small country with just over 200,000 homes — have been inundated.


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Exxon is Telling Investors its Permian Fracking Projects are ‘World Class’. The Data Says Otherwise.
— By Nick Cunningham (4 min. read) —
ExxonMobil’s production numbers in the Permian basin in West Texas and New Mexico appear to have deteriorated in 2019, according to new analysis, calling into question the company’s claims that it is an industry leader and that its operations are steadily becoming more efficient over time.

Chastened by years of poor returns and rising angst among its own shareholders, ExxonMobil narrowed its priorities in 2020 to just a few overarching areas of interest, focusing on its massive offshore oil discoveries in Guyana and its Permian basin assets, two areas positioned as the very core of the company’s growth strategy.


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Hundreds Arrested at Line 3 ‘Treaty People Gathering.’ Water Protectors Vow To Continue Until the Pipeline is Canceled
— By Nick Cunningham (5 min. read) —
Nearly 200 people were arrested on Monday while protesting the Line 3 pipeline, a long-distance tar sands pipeline that runs across Indigenous land and threatens food and water resources, including the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Indigenous and environmental groups, and even some elected officials, condemned the aggressive use of a helicopter to disperse protesters.

More than 2,000 people began gathering at an undisclosed location in Northern Minnesota over the weekend, answering a call from Indigenous Anishinaabe people and a coalition of environmental groups to disrupt the construction of the pipeline.


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Shale Oil Fraud Case Reveals Executives Ignore Their Own Engineers and Mislead Investors
— By Justin Mikulka (7 min. read) —
In April, a judge ruled that a lawsuit filed by former investors in the shale oil company Alta Mesa could proceed. Their case alleges multiple instances of fraud and reveals that not only did engineers in the company warn executives that they were lying to investors about oil production estimates but that executives went on to ignore those warnings.

Alta Mesa is among a string of oil and gas companies that in recent years have either been accused or found guilty of fraud, including ExxonMobil and Miller Energy.


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From the Climate Disinformation Database: The American Farm Bureau Federation

The American Farm Bureau Federation calls itself the “unified national voice of agriculture” in the US. The AFBF acts as the cornerstone organization in a network of affiliated state-level Farm Bureau non-profits and insurance providers. For decades, the Farm Bureau network, which has links to the fossil fuel industry, lobbied against climate action and spread climate science denial in farming communities and in capitals across the US. Despite softening its messages on climate science, as of August 2020 the AFBF opposes a “near term” end to the use of fossil fuels. It also continues to support fracking, expanding the use of coal and other forms of fossil fuel production.

Read the full profile and browse other individuals and organizations in our Climate Disinformation Database and Koch Network Database.

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Two new Javan rhino calves spotted in the species’ last holdout

JAKARTA — Conservation officials in Indonesia have reported a sighting of two new Javan rhinoceros calves, boosting hopes for stable population growth of the nearly extinct species. The calves, a female and a male, were spotted on different occasions in March by camera traps in Ujung Kulon National Park on the western tip of Indonesia’s […]
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Banks increased deforestation-linked investments by $8B during Covid-19: report

The world’s 50 largest financial institutions increased their investments in deforestation-linked commodity companies by more than $8 billion since the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report has found. The research, published last week by Forests & Finance, a coalition of non-governmental groups, also ranked more than 50 financial institutions based on their […]
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New ecolabel will certify ‘Whale-Safe’ shipping companies and cruise lines

In the 1980s, video of dolphins dying in fishing nets sparked a public boycott of tuna and the development of “dolphin-safe” labeling programs for canned tuna that have become ubiquitous in many countries. Now, one organization wants to use that model to protect whales from collisions with ships. The Italian NGO World Sustainability Organization launched […]
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Can the Japanese seafood industry reconcile their finances with nature?

At a glance, Japan’s seafood sector is a financial success story. Indeed, between 2010 and 2019, the 70 publicly-listed companies exposed to the sector on the Tokyo Stock Exchange enjoyed both rising profits and share prices. The country also dominates the global industry: you will find more Japanese entities in rankings of the top 100 […]
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Forest advocates press EU leader to rethink views on biomass and energy

In lead up to EU forest biomass “carbon neutrality” decision, European Commission Exec. VP Frans Timmermans argues in favor of forest conservation, while also favoring burning wood to make “transition” energy.
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Climate change isn’t fueling algal blooms the way we think, study shows

It started in October 2017. A swarm of microscopic algae called Karenia brevis amassed in the waters off Florida’s southwest coast, turning the ocean a rust-red hue. The algae, which are toxic to most marine life as well as humans, transformed Florida’s sea into a watery graveyard as the bodies of fish, manatees, dolphins and […]
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Marbled cat: Candid Animal Cam meets the mini clouded leopard

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting a wild cat that looks like a miniature version of the clouded leopard: the marbled cat. The marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata) is a small wild cat native from the eastern Himalayas to […]
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Illegal logging in Philippines’ Palawan stokes fears of a mining resurgence

Pala’wan indigenous community leader Simpio Mata trudges through the natural forest of Mount Domadoway, in the southern part of the Philippines’ Palawan province, at least twice a month. He does this primarily to check on the presence of towering trees the Pala’wan consider sacred homes for tau’t kekeywan (forest spirits). Recently, the 42-year-old Mata says […]
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Two new Javan rhino calves spotted in the species’ last holdout

JAKARTA — Conservation officials in Indonesia have reported a sighting of two new Javan rhinoceros calves, boosting hopes for stable population growth of the nearly extinct species. The calves, a female and a male, were spotted on different occasions in March by camera traps in Ujung Kulon National Park on the western tip of Indonesia’s […]
Read on »

Can the Japanese seafood industry reconcile their finances with nature?

At a glance, Japan’s seafood sector is a financial success story. Indeed, between 2010 and 2019, the 70 publicly-listed companies exposed to the sector on the Tokyo Stock Exchange enjoyed both rising profits and share prices. The country also dominates the global industry: you will find more Japanese entities in rankings of the top 100 […]
Read on »

Marbled cat: Candid Animal Cam meets the mini clouded leopard

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting a wild cat that looks like a miniature version of the clouded leopard: the marbled cat. The marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata) is a small wild cat native from the eastern Himalayas to […]
Read on »

 

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Conservation Headlines
Through credible and accurate coverage of conservation and environmental issues, Mongabay inspires, educates, and informs the public, while enabling leaders to more effectively protect our planet's wildlife and ecosystems. Donate here

Excerpts:
Two new Javan rhino calves spotted in the species’ last holdout

JAKARTA — Conservation officials in Indonesia have reported a sighting of two new Javan rhinoceros calves, boosting hopes for stable population growth of the nearly extinct species. The calves, a female and a male, were spotted on different occasions in March by camera traps in Ujung Kulon National Park on the western tip of Indonesia’s […]
Read on »

Banks increased deforestation-linked investments by $8B during Covid-19: report

The world’s 50 largest financial institutions increased their investments in deforestation-linked commodity companies by more than $8 billion since the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report has found. The research, published last week by Forests & Finance, a coalition of non-governmental groups, also ranked more than 50 financial institutions based on their […]
Read on »

New ecolabel will certify ‘Whale-Safe’ shipping companies and cruise lines

In the 1980s, video of dolphins dying in fishing nets sparked a public boycott of tuna and the development of “dolphin-safe” labeling programs for canned tuna that have become ubiquitous in many countries. Now, one organization wants to use that model to protect whales from collisions with ships. The Italian NGO World Sustainability Organization launched […]
Read on »

Can the Japanese seafood industry reconcile their finances with nature?

At a glance, Japan’s seafood sector is a financial success story. Indeed, between 2010 and 2019, the 70 publicly-listed companies exposed to the sector on the Tokyo Stock Exchange enjoyed both rising profits and share prices. The country also dominates the global industry: you will find more Japanese entities in rankings of the top 100 […]
Read on »

Marbled cat: Candid Animal Cam meets the mini clouded leopard

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting a wild cat that looks like a miniature version of the clouded leopard: the marbled cat. The marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata) is a small wild cat native from the eastern Himalayas to […]
Read on »

 

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Today at Yale Environment 360, journalist Zach St. George explains how scientists are warning that climate change will produce a rapid and dramatic rearrangement of plant life in many parts of the world. Previous periods of rapid warming millions of years ago drastically altered plants and forests. But now scientists say they are seeing the beginnings of a more sudden, disruptive rearrangement of the world’s flora — one that they believe is likely to grow more apparent in the decades to come. One study found warmth-loving plants growing more common near

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