'Toontime: The First Wildlife Advocate

The new movie about the biblical hero has inspired editorial cartoonists:

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The latest climate report from the UN is not encouraging. The IPCC report has clearly shifted its emphasis from mitigating catastrophic climate change to surviving it. Climate change is an ongoing phenomenon and humans as well as wildlife will need to adapt, if possible. Reports from a two decades ago barely mention climate change adaptation, but adaptation as a strategy made its appearance in the 2001 report. Now there are four chapters on adaptation including charts.

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