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Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific
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Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation
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The importance of perceived fairness to public opinion about climate change policies
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Novel wheat varieties facilitate deep sowing to beat the heat of changing climates
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 March 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01305-9Wheat genotypes with improved seedling emergence can be sown deeper, facilitating seedling survival under climate change....
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