Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December 30, 2024

Posted: 1st January 2025

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Calculated retreat of the Great Aletsch Glacier during the 21st century. (Figure modified from Jouvet and Huss, 2019). This figure is from an article featured as a 2024 Bulletin magazine highlight, GDGIIHOD5KqywE7UeJx2H-ijtX2luY4YXfEJaTODH.u0Uy.zeFv2Y2hi_IjvYwX5nK”>The best of the Bulletin’s bimonthly magazine, 2024

By Dan Drollette Jr

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Last year, organizers of the annual UN climate negotiations finally got around to dealing with agriculture as a source of carbon, using the occasion to unveil a so-called “roadmap” for bringing the world’s food production into line with global climate goals. But has the UN gone far enough? GDGIIHOD5KqywE7UeJx2H-ijtX2luY4YXfEJaTODH.u0Uy.zeFv2Y2hi_IjvYwX5DL”>

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