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The article discusses that Jean-Michel Leniaud, a historian of architecture, was at a reception at the Palace of Versailles. He rushed back to Paris and watched the drama. "People were crying. People were praying. It mentions that Dorothée Chaoui-Derieux, a conservator who oversees archaeological digs in Paris, read the news on Twitter as she made dinner for her three children.

The article presents the interview with Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University. Topics include the scientists are starting to be able to do is put numbers on how much worse climate change made specific events, the numbers are horrifying with the deadly floods in Germany, and the attribution study showed they were as much as nine times more likely as a result of a changing climate.

The article focuses on pandemic has reminded of the urgent need to stop abusing the planet which could inspire everyone to prevent the looming climate disaster has been resist a return to business as usual. Topics include the city Milner and others envisioned has to be a kind of industrial plantation and built on enslaved labor, and the Civil War has intervened but when Birmingham has finally established in the 1870s.

The article offers information on the Global economy. Topics include mission of circular economy movement to increase number and reduce the enormous amount of waste; and introduced "circularity gap," as de Wit and his colleagues dubbed it when they presented their report at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2018 in human history.

The article offers information on Peter Calthorpe, who is an architect who in the late 1970s helped design one of the first energy-efficient state office buildings, which still stands in Sacramento, California. It states that the 1990s Calthorpe scored a breakthrough in which he helped persuade Portland, Oregon, to build a light-rail line instead of another freeway and to cluster housing, offices, and shops around it.

The article offers information on the sustainable development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates to reduce its carbon footprints. Topics discussed include energy efficiency at the Green Planet; efforts to decrease carbon emissions, increase the use of renewable energy sources with development of solar power plants; and the Sustainable City with solar panel in each villas.

The article focuses on the immigration history of several people that impacts their culture. Topics discussed include European nation accepted the largest number of refugees from Germany, a legacy of the French colonialism from the Algerian civil war and many Indians from British colony going to Great Britain.

The article discusses Germany's will to change and the energy revolution of the country to replace nuclear energy and fossil fuels. As a leader of the industrial nations, Germany produces electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar power. It is included in the article that after the Japan's Fukyushima nuclear disaster, Germany closed nine of the operable reactors and aims of the country in electricity generation by 2050 from renewables.

The article discusses the cattle industry and the consumption of meat, focusing on the debate about whether Americans should eat beef. Topics include the use of antibiotics and steroids, the way cattle hands treat cattle, the sustainability of feedlots, a discussion of what would happen if Americans ate less beef, and the author's experience with Paul Defoor, chief operating officer of Cactus Feeders, at Cactus's Wrangler Feedyard in Texas.

The article discusses the link between the Roman Empire and Hautes-Pyrénées in southern France, which sits on the Rhône River, and is home to many Roman artifacts. Topics include the extraction, preservation, and exhibition of a barge that had sunk in the river, how the strong current and poor visibility of the Rhône River made the project difficult and dangerous, and how archaeologists Sabrina Marlier, David Djaoui, and Sandra Greek managed to complete the project by their 2013 deadline.

The article discusses the disappearance of the world's glaciers. Topics include the Extreme Ice Survey, which used time-lapse photography to chronicle the fate of glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, Europe's Alps mountains, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains, glacial dynamics, and the impact of global warming on glaciers, such as Switzerland's Rhône Glacier, which has retreated up the Swiss Alps.

The article presents several photographs of Iceland, including a photograph of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on April 23, 2010, a stream flowing into volcanic sand near Háfur, and a waterfall in Litlanesfoss. Information is provided on how volcanoes, glaciers, and people have changed the landscape of Iceland.

The article looks at urban planning, with a focus on building city buildings up rather than out to accommodate the planet's expanding human population. Topics discussed include how cities leave arable land available for open country space, how city dwellers use fewer resources and drive less, and the phenomenon of urban sprawl, where city populations expand into areas outside the city. Garden cities as envisioned by 19th-century author Ebenezer Howard are mentioned.

The article focuses on the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of intense climate change caused by the release of a massive amount of carbon into the oceans and atmosphere. It states that while the cause of PETM is unknown, the most popular theory is that methane hydrates in the ocean may have melted and entered the atmosphere, causing significant warming. It talks about various changes to the environment, including to plants, a reduction in mammal sizes, and weather patterns.

The article discusses a growing global population which is expected to reach nine billion people by the year 2045 despite decreasing birth rates which are also being seen across the globe. A discussion of the impact that the growth is expected to have on the earth and on resources which are needed for human existence is presented. An upcoming year long series which will investigate global population growth and its impact is discussed.

This article examines petroleum mining from oil sands in the Athabasca Valley of Alberta, Canada. The Alberta government estimates that there are three main oil sands deposits here which contain 173 billion total barrels of oil, and examines the logistical obstacles and environmental consequences of the industrial impact of mining oil sand. A number of photographs are included which display the industry and people of Alberta.

The article discusses drought conditions in the southwestern United States. The author states that average annual rainfall amounts have been dropping for several years with little end in sight. The author also contextualizes the drought in a broader trend of wet and dry periods over the last 1000 years. The author states that the United States is entering a dry period for perhaps as much as 200 years.

The article presents an overview of research which is being conducted by several individuals from across the globe, including Wes Jackson, the co-founder and president of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, in an effort to create perennial varieties of feed grains. A discussion of the advantages of growing perennial varieties of feed grain crops, and of the disadvantages that are associated with annual feed grain crops, is presented.

The article reports on research by physicist Klaus Lackner and his colleague Allen Wright on technological methods for removing carbon dioxide gas from the earth's atmosphere. A plastic resin impregnated with sodium carbonate can combine with free carbon dioxide to create baking soda. The possibility that such devices could be scaled up to counteract carbon emissions on a global scale is discussed. INSETS: HOW IT WORKS;Where the Carbon Goes.

The article presents an overview of the plans that researchers from 25 countries across the globe have to classify 500,000 of the earth's 1.7 million animal species with DNA barcoding by 2015. A discussion of negative reaction to the plan which has been seen among some biologists is presented. The fundamental ideas behind barcoding are discussed.

The article reports on the physiological, ecological and environmental factors that would need to be considered in order to make the planet Mars suitable for human habitation. Resources which could be adapted on Mars to provide human inhabitants with water, plants and a suitable atmosphere are discussed.

The article discusses the role of carbon emissions in global warming and climate change. According to the author, even with large cuts in carbon dioxide emissions from cars, power plants and factories it could still take hundreds of years to reverse the damage caused by excess carbon dioxide. Experts speculate that the world would need to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 to stabilize the effects of climate change.

This article discusses a proposal by geoengineers and astronomers that global warming can be stopped by developing a set of outer space deflectors made of sulphate or silicon nitride. These deflectors would diminish the intensity of sunlight on the Earth. Efforts to balance the risks posed by global warming with the possible unintended consequences of modifying the climate are considered. Comments from astronomer Roger Angel and climate scientist Ken Caldiera are considered.

The article reports on the global impact of climatic changes, as of November 2015. Topics include a global climate confab in Paris, France to be held in December 2015, a report by scientists on the impact of climatic changes on West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the agreement of six European oil firms on carbon tax. It also discusses the increased production of renewable energy in China and the impact of using fossil fuels on global environment.