US biology textbooks have less climate content than decade ago: study

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The authors of the study argued that understanding climate change should be a priority for the US, as Americans are among the top carbon emitters per capita.

A recent study showed that sections addressing climate change have reduced and are being increasingly pushed to the end of university-level textbooks in the US. Photo: AFP

"Covering it in a few pages and relegating it to the end of the textbooks implies that it's not important," she said.They found that the number of sentences about climate change increased from a median of less than 10 before 1990 to 30 in the 1990s. Coverage of climate change solutions meanwhile fell from 15% of the passages dedicated to climate in the 1990s to just 3% in recent decades.

 

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