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Climate-change content shrinks in US university textbooks

Sections on climate change have become shorter and moved farther back in biology textbooks since the 2000s.
  1. McKenzie Prillaman
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University biology textbooks published in the United States in the 2010s contained less climate-change content than those published in the 2000s, despite the increasing urgency of the climate crisis1.

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Nature 613, 228 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04487-6

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  1. Ansari, R. A. & Landin, J. M. PLoS ONE 17, e0278532 (2022).

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  2. Plutzer, E. et al. Science 351, 664–665 (2016).

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