Climate Language
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The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic
A newly translated book connects language with our failure to act.
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Facts are back, and so is the EPA’s climate change website
Trump erased it. Biden revived it.
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Only 2020 could bring us words like these
What happens to the lexicon when the climate crisis meets a global pandemic?
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Birth strike, flygskam, Pyrocene: The words that defined our planet in 2019
2019 was a wild year for the climate — and the English lexicon.
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These 13 words defined our overheating planet in 2018
The world was on fire this year, and so was our vocabulary.
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From hotumn to meatmares: The words that defined our planet this year
Did 2017 leave you lost for words? Here are some new ones.
