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HOW TO HELP BIRDS SPRING FORWARD

seasons and migrations, what can we do about it? The obvious answer—address the root causes of climate change, namely gaseous emissions from combusted fossil fuels, so we can reverse the planet’s fever—is also the hardest. But research into the

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