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Climate change's most deadly threat: drought

Anthropologist Brian Fagan uses Earth's distant past to predict the crises that may lie in its future.
Climate change's most deadly threat: drought

Anthropologist Brian Fagan uses Earth's distant past to predict the crises that may lie in its future.

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Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

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Topic: Elizabeth Kolbert

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Climate change’s most deadly threat: drought

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