The New York Times reports that in the mid-1990s, Kirsten Gillibrand, the New York senator who has replaced Hillary Clinton,
'played a significant role on behalf of the tobacco industry in battling the government’s attempts to prove wrongdoing by cigarette makers'.
Within its report, the Times reproduces this - almost comical - picture of tobacco executives telling Congress in 1994 that they did not believe there was a proven link between smoking and cancer.
Nancy Oreskes, George Monbiot, and others, have detailed the links between Big Tobacco and climate-change denial.
Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of
global collapse
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Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat-tolerant
larvae back to degraded reefs in the Maldives
An underwater experiment to resto...
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