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<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: Here's Some Slightly Less Apocalyptic Climate News

New sea-level-rise projections. Plus L.A.’s mayor and the 2020 presidency, the Golden Globes, and more
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Climate-change updates can sometimes feel like one dire prognostication after another, but today came : An ominous prediction from two years ago that quickly melting glaciers in Antarctica will destroy the homes of 150 million people by 2100 looks to be less likely than the researchers initially thought. Still, the revised figures don’t make the necessity of addressing climate change any less acute: According to a recent UN

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