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Opinion: We're tearing holes in the fabric of life on Earth |  CNN

Opinion: We’re tearing holes in the fabric of life on Earth | CNN

Editor’s note: Jane Alexander is the former president of the National Endowment for the Arts. She has served on the boards of Audubon, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the American Bird Conservancy. Alexander is the author of “Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth”. She is also a Tony …

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Opinion: We're tearing holes in the fabric of life on Earth |  CNN

Opinion: We’re tearing holes in the fabric of life on Earth | CNN

Editor’s note: Jane Alexander is the former president of the National Endowment for the Arts. She has served on the boards of Audubon, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the American Bird Conservancy. Alexander is the author of “Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth”. She is also a Tony …

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No Room for Nuclear in New York’s Clean Energy Future (guest opinion by Joseph J. Heath and Betty Lyons)

Joe Heath has served as general counsel to the Onondaga Nation since 1982. He was a leader in efforts to ban fracking in New York State. Prior to law school, Heath served as an officer on nuclear submarines. Betty Lyons is President and Executive Director of the American Indian Law Alliance (AILA) and a citizen …

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Opinion: The fall of Bill 21 in Quebec could come thanks to women

Opinion: The fall of Bill 21 in Quebec could come thanks to women

Sheema Khan is the author of Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman. The notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter is no longer an obscure legal term. Thanks to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s recent use of Section 33 to prevent education workers from pressuring them – he invoked the clause, or threatened …

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Opinion: To realize the promise of DNA-based medicine, genetic libraries need to be more diverse

Opinion: To realize the promise of DNA-based medicine, genetic libraries need to be more diverse

Here’s what a future doctor’s visit might look like: The patient provides a saliva sample for genetic testing and receives personalized health counseling based on their DNA, environment, diet, and lifestyle. The test not only measures an individual’s risk of inherited diseases; it can also predict the effectiveness of a treatment. Although it may sound …

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Opinion: To help tackle the climate crisis, we should plant more trees |  CNN

Opinion: To help tackle the climate crisis, we should plant more trees | CNN

Editor’s note: Jad Daley is president and CEO of American Forests and head of the US section of 1t.org. Marc Benioff is president and co-CEO of Salesforce. The opinions expressed in this commentary are their own. Read more reviews on CNN. When we joined countries, companies and NGOs two years ago to launch the 1t.org …

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Opinion: How can a warming planet support 8 billion people?

Opinion: How can a warming planet support 8 billion people?

There are issues that concern me deeply as a population health and environmental scientist. Will we have enough food for a growing world population? How are we going to care for more people in the next pandemic? What will the heat do to millions of hypertensives? Will countries fight water wars because of increasing droughts? …

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