Climate lawsuits are breaking new legal ground to protect the planet
Climate lawsuits are breaking new legal ground to protect the planet

        

        
            
        
        
            
                
                    
                        

    
        
            
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                28 February 2020
                
            

            

            
                
                
                    Despite recent defeats, activists are optimistic that courts will provide relief from climate change.
                
            
        
        
            
    
        
            
                
                    Giuliana Viglione
                
                
                
                    
                
            
        
    

        
    
    


            
            


        
            
                
                    
                        

                        
                    
                
            

            
                

                

                
                    Twenty-year-old Nathan Baring is a third-generation Alaskan. Within his lifetime, he has seen winters shorten, cod fisheries collapse and cultural traditions suffer. He grieves for an Arctic that is disappearing before his eyes. “There is a very distinct loss of place here,” he says.
                    
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                Nature 579, 184-185 (2020)
                doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00175-5

            
            
                
            

            
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