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It’s time to go nuclear in the fight against climate change
We need to kick fossil fuels to the curb immediately. So we can't ignore any of our clean-energy options.
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Get used to saying ‘bomb cyclone.’ This is our climate now.
Wild winter weather is another sign of the Anthropocene.
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Heartbroken scientists lament the likely loss of ‘most of the world’s coral reefs’
With coral bleaching events increasing in frequency, researchers are forced to consider marine life without the underwater ecosystems.
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Ready or not, winter ‘bomb cyclone’ heads for East Coast
The monster storm could reach as far south as Georgia and Florida.
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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.
