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Trump tweets overshadowed these major climate stories in 2017
What the heck were we talking about while climate calamities swept over the earth?
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2017 was actually a pretty great year for the climate
Grist's resident meteorologist thought 2017 was the worst. His Twitter followers showed him there are reasons for optimism.
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Let it go: The Arctic will never be frozen again
There’s new evidence that an unprecedented transformation is underway at the North Pole.
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Fracking harms the health of babies, study shows
For mothers who lived close to a fracking site, the probability of having a baby with low infant birthweight went up 25 percent.
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The GOP tax bill could cost us the next generation of climate scientists
The so-called grad student tax could hurt scientific research, leaving us less capable of tackling climate change.
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The first wintertime megafire in California history is here
At least six major fires threaten tens of thousands of homes and have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee in recent days.
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Ice Apocalypse
Rapid collapse of Antarctic glaciers could flood coastal cities by the end of this century.
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Geoengineering’s unintended consequences: Hurricanes and food shortages
“There's a lot we don't know and a lot of differences in models.”
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Europe’s hurricane-fueled wildfires might become a recurring nightmare
Ophelia hitting Ireland was just the beginning of a chain of disasters, and the forecast is for more in the future.
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New Mexico’s anti-science education standards made ‘behind closed doors’
“They Were Really Worried About Creationists and the Oil Companies.”
