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I’ve been tracking environmental issues for more than six decades. Yet, centuries before I was born, Malthus warned of exponential growth. Since then, technological optimists have pushed back.
Join us in honoring the legacy of tenacious scientist Charles Wurster, with this interview about what led to the U.S. ban on DDT, how it grew into what became Environmental Defense Fund and how it shaped his life.
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As Tern Island, a former military outpost in the Hawaiian archipelago, falls apart and harms turtles, birds, seals and more, scientists wonder what’s next
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