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Hurricanes: Stronger, slower, wetter in the future?

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Hurricanes: A bit stronger, a bit slower, and a lot wetter in a warmer climate

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A bolt of insight

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Pollution-related disease presents global environmental challenge

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Record-breaking ocean heat fueled Hurricane Harvey

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The changing chemistry of the Amazonian atmosphere

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New technique more accurately reflects ponds on Arctic sea ice

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NSF announces 2018 winners for Generation Nano: Superheroes Inspired by Science

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New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920

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The Sahara Desert is expanding

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Reconciling Paris Agreement goals for temperature, emissions

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Cutting greenhouse gas emissions would help spare cities worldwide from rising seas

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Half a degree more global warming could flood out 5 million more people

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Study discovers South African wildfires create climate cooling

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UMBC physicists discover unexpected effect of African wildfires on climate

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U CO2 sensor network shows effects of metro growth

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Consumer, industrial products overtake transportation as source of urban air pollution

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By 2100, arid cities will suffer from more severe heat waves than temperate cities

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Most of last 11,000 years cooler than past decade in North America, Europe

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Cloud seeding for snow: Does it work? Scientists report first quantifiable observations

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UW researcher leads study of first quantifiable observation of cloud seeding

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Climate engineering, once started, would have severe impacts if stopped

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Researchers discover higher environmental impact from cookstove emissions

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Cleaner air, longer lives

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Warmer, wetter climate could mean stronger, more intense storms

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Six-decade-old space mystery solved with shoebox-sized satellite called a CubeSat

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Researchers capture oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions

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Major space mystery solved using data from student satellite

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Climate scientists study the odds of a US megadrought

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