Last week, the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement—a deal struck between nations in 2015 to limit the increase of global average temperatures to less than 2°C.


	The Cold Hard Truth Last week, the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement—a deal struck between nations in 2015 to limit the increase of global average temperatures to less than 2°C. Meanwhile, scientists in New Zealand and Antarctica are working to decipher how the Earth's climate works. They're reading ice cores for clues into the planet's past, and building a model to predict how the climate will behave in the future.

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Rebels with a cause

Teenagers are stereotyped as being fiercely independent and rejecting the status quo, but having a sense of community belonging is in fact critical to their happiness.

Kōtuku

It's easy to see why the snow-white feathers of the kōtuku, or white heron, became objects of desire. The kōtuku is the bird on our $2 coin.