<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https://www.businesstoday.in/science/story/earth-is-losing-its-natural-cooling-shield-how-rising-temperatures-could-reshape-life-on-the-planet-549419-2026-08-15&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYAioUMTYwMzE5Mzc3NjMwODQ1NzM4NDUyGjRiYjYwYzA2NGI2NGExZGM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&amp;usg=AOvVaw3tm6vwCkBox7OICsNBqVxA" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?rct%3Dj%26sa%3Dt%26url%3Dhttps://www.businesstoday.in/science/story/earth-is-losing-its-natural-cooling-shield-how-rising-temperatures-could-reshape-life-on-the-planet-549419-2026-08-15%26ct%3Dga%26cd%3DCAEYAioUMTYwMzE5Mzc3NjMwODQ1NzM4NDUyGjRiYjYwYzA2NGI2NGExZGM6Y29tOmVuOlVT%26usg%3DAOvVaw3tm6vwCkBox7OICsNBqVxA&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1787240556766000&amp;usg=AOvVaw124DYmdRgGtnxZurOssTFV" style="color: rgb(66, 127, 237); display: inline; text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px;"><font face="Arial" size="4">Earth is losing its natural cooling shield:<b> How rising temperatures could reshape life on the planet</b></font></a></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="padding: 2px 0px 8px;"><div style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><a style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">Business Today</a></div><div style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); padding: 2px 0px 0px; line-height: 18px;">What is&nbsp;<b>albedo</b>&nbsp;\u2014 and why should we care?&nbsp;<b>Albedo</b>&nbsp;is a measure of how much sunlight a surface reflects back into space. Fresh snow and ice can&nbsp;...</div></div></div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">==========<br><br>" \u2018Triage\u2019 is a dirty word in&nbsp;some conservation circles, but&nbsp;like many dirty words, it&nbsp;describes something&nbsp;common. Whether they admit&nbsp;it or not, conservationists&nbsp;have long had to make&nbsp;decisions about what to save.<br><br>"As more and more admit it,&nbsp;open discussion about how&nbsp;the decisions are best made&nbsp;\u2014 by concentrating on&nbsp;particular species, or&nbsp;particular places, or absolute&nbsp;costs, or any other criterion&nbsp;\u2014 becomes possible.&nbsp;Whichever criteria come into&nbsp;play, one thing remains&nbsp;constant. The decisions have&nbsp;to be made quickly."<br><br><br>Emma Marris, "What To Let&nbsp;Go.\u201d NATURE November 8,&nbsp;2007<br></div><br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/450152a.pdf">https://www.nature.com/articles/450152a.pdf</a></div><div>
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