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Alec Luhn is a journalist focusing on global issues of good governance, human rights and activism, especially in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. He has written extensively for publications in both the United States and Russia, including The Moscow Times, Russian Life, The Nation and GlobalPost.

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Corruption Index Keeps Russia in 'Zone of Shame'

Corruption Index Keeps Russia in 'Zone of Shame'

Even as the government wages a high-profile anti-corruption campaign, Russia remains in the bottom third of T…

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Construction Blooms in Bureaucratic Chaos

Construction Blooms in Bureaucratic Chaos

Recent efforts by Moscow region Governor Sergei Shoigu to streamline construction rules and property zoning c…

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Wildlife thrives in solar farm built on restored peatland

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By Alec Luhn 
| New Scientist
A meadow pipit at the solar park on peatland in northern Germany A solar farm on a rewetted peatland is home to more types of bird than drained agricultural fields nearby, suggesting that land used for renewable energy can make money for landowners, lock away carbon and boost biodiversity at the same time. Peatlands are the largest terrestrial carbon store, holding twice as much carbon as all forests.
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Cuts to US ocean programme will hinder monitoring of El Niño and AMOC

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By Alec Luhn 
| New Scientist
One of the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s mooring spheres being lifted out of the sea In the winter of 2013-2014, the strong winds of the jet stream shifted north, allowing a mass of warm water dubbed “the blob” to swell across more than 1500 kilometres of the north Pacific Ocean. Floating instruments moored to the seabed off Alaska, Washington and Oregon alerted scientists and the fishing industry to the arrival of this water, which was up to 4°C hotter than normal.
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Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening

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By Alec Luhn 
| New Scientist
The “cold blob” appears in a data visualisation showing average temperatures in 2015, relative to the 1951-80 average Over the past 150 years, Earth’s entire surface has been warming, except for one patch of the north Atlantic. Located south-east of Greenland, this area has cooled by as much as 1°C and is known as the “warming hole” or the “cold blob”.
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