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August 29, 2024
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

You didn’t get offered “attribution science” in school. 

But as climate writer Stephanie Hanes reports today, “how we understand the connections between climate change and extreme weather events can impact a slew of individual, economic, and policy choices.”

Stephanie’s reporting advances that understanding. She adds shades of gray to a topic that’s often debated in black and white. 

She does so routinely. Hear Stephanie discuss a story she wrote on one climate scientist’s misgivings on a recent episode of our “Why We Wrote This” podcast. Hear her, along with politics writer Christa Case Bryant, examine common ground on climate action on another. Thinking evolves when debates get smarter. 


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People holding umbrellas cross a railway line in Kolkata, India, as rain continues after Cyclone Remal made a landfall near the Bangladesh-India border, May 27, 2024.

Patterns

Tracing global connections
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Cynthia Addai-Robinson appears in a scene from “The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power.” Season 2 was released on Aug. 29, 2024, by Prime Video.
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FOR I NE’ER SAW TRUE BEAUTY TILL THESE LIGHTS: The cast of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company performs during a dress rehearsal of “The Winter’s Tale” onstage on Boston Common.

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Haiti's Prime Minister Garry Conille talks to journalists at a Port-au-Prince hospital where he was visiting police officers and civilians injured during a police operation.

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Brazil’s delegation arrives for the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games opening ceremony at the Place de la Concorde in Paris Aug. 28. The Games run until Sept. 8, with as many as 4,400 athletes competing in 549 medal events.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thanks for diving into your Daily. Tomorrow we’ll start the march into Labor Day weekend in the United States with a workforce story. Its fastest-growing segment through 2030 will be people over 75 years old. We talked with older adults returning to work about what jobs they will fill. 

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