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Indigenous people make up only 6% of the world's population but manage over a quarter of the world's land surface. These ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Far smaller and far slower social changes in earlier periods triggered civil wars, rebellions, and violent intellectual and spiritual crises. The extreme social transformations of this century have ...