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Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert

The New Yorker

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Why Is the Sea So Hot?

In early 2023, climate scientists—and anyone else paying attention to the data—started to notice something strange. At the beginning of March,...

07.04.2024 400

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Elizabeth Kolbert

The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I.

In 2016, Alex de Vries read somewhere that a single bitcoin transaction consumes as much energy as the average American household uses in a day. At...

07.04.2024 100

The New Yorker

Elizabeth Kolbert

What Did COP28 Really Accomplish?

Three decades after agreeing to avoid “dangerous” warming, the nations of the world today acknowledged that this would involve “transitioning...

14.12.2023 7

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Elizabeth Kolbert

Looking for a Greener Way to Fly

Sometime in the next few weeks, the Department of the Treasury is expected to decide who—or, really, what—will qualify for a new set of tax...

09.12.2023 6

The New Yorker

Elizabeth Kolbert

Hurricane Otis and the World We Live in Now

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Hurricane Otis crashed into the western coast of Mexico, just north of the resort city of Acapulco. A Category...

26.10.2023 4

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Elizabeth Kolbert

The Supreme Court Looks Set to Deliver Another Blow to the Environment

Last week, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that’s nominally about herring. Arguments will be heard this winter, in tandem with...

20.10.2023 3

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Elizabeth Kolbert

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