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Peter Brannen is an award-winning American science journalist and contributing writer at The Atlantic whose work also appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired and other outlets. He is author of The Ends of the World (2017) and The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything (2025) and focuses on deep Earth history, climate and planetary science.