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Plastic has changed our environment. How has it changed us?
What's plastic doing to our bodies? This all-female team is investigating.
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Climate change is altering the color of the oceans
New research suggests that we will see deeper shades of blue and green by 2100.
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What’s next for the parched Colorado? The latest on the West’s drought drama.
The dwindling river provides water for 1-in-8 Americans.
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No matter what happens on Groundhog Day, winters are getting shorter
Here are four impacts of shorter winters.
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Don’t mean to alarm you, but there’s a big hole in the world’s most important glacier
Actually, yeah, you should probably be alarmed about Thwaites.
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Despite the U.S. cold snap, January was hot hot hot
There have been 651 record daily highs across the U.S., compared to 321 record daily lows.
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Despite Groundhog Day, winters are getting shorter
It turns out Punxsutawney Phil is getting even worse at predicting when climate change is involved
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Scientists make a stand to protect their work under Trump
And sometimes, they're succeeding.
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Minnesota winters ain’t what they used to be
This cold snap is just a glimpse of past winters.
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![Honey Bees [Apis mellifera] at the entrance to a hive.]()
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Bees face yet another lethal threat in dicamba, a drift-prone pesticide
The EPA extended its approval of the weed killer for two more years, despite scientists’ warnings.
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