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I’m in Nice, France, this week attending the U.N. Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 ...

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Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

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(Note that drinking alcohol is forbidden in the Islam religion so only certain licensed establishments can serve booze, ...