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Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)

Climate politics went mainstream in 2019

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A waterfall in the Amazon rainforest. (Shutterstock)

The statistic of the decade

Liberty Vittert - The Conversation
A packet of open cigarettes (Getty Images/iStock)

FDA raises age to buy tobacco products

Shira Tarlo
This GOES-16 satellite image taken Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, at 17:20 UTC and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Dorian, right, moving over open waters in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters are now saying Dorian could be a Category 4 with winds of nearly 140 mph (225 kph) when it is forecasted to hit Florida late Monday or early Tuesday. It’s also imperiling the Bahamas, where the storm is expected to hit by Sunday. (NOAA via AP) (AP)

Shrinking budgets, rising seas

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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Clogging the system

Diane Peters - Undark
"Washington Crossing the Delaware," (1851) oil on canvas painted by Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868). (Bettmann Archive)

Washington’s Christmas night crossing

Richard Gunderman - The Conversation
(<a href='https://www.shutterstock.com/g/joshuaresnick'>Joshua Resnick</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Should you avoid meat for good health?

Dariush Mozaffarian - The Conversation
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What do kids really think about Santa?

Jonathan Lane - The Conversation
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This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse as it was revealed thanks to different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which allowed two independent teams of astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. They show that the star has a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. These discoveries provide important clues to help explain how these mammoths shed material at such a tremendous rate. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Why Betelgeuse may go supernova

Shira Tarlo
Fighting for a future: Young protesters at the Global Climate Strike in London on March 15, 2019. (Garry Knight/Flickr)

A year of resistance

Joe Curnow, Anjali Helferty - The Conversation
(George Frey/Getty Images)

Federal Toxmap shutters

Michael Schulson - Undark
Hurricane Irma seen striking Miami, Florida with 100+ mph winds and destructive storm surge, and "Building A Resilient Tomorrow" by Alice C. Hill & Leonardo Martinez-Diaz (Oxford University Press)

When will the US learn from disasters?

Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
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"What Science Is and How It Really Works" by James C. Zimring (Cambridge University Press/Getty Images)

Why science is a social construct

James C. Zimring
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (AP/Seth Wenig)

Time running out to pass NY climate law

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
Giant sequoia redwood tree in Tuolumne Grove of Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley, California, 2016. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Does forest thinning save the redwoods?

Becki Robins - Undark
This April 21, 2010, file photo shows a large plume of smoke rising from BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Soaking up oil spills

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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Shot of a young woman getting massaged at a beauty spa (Getty Images)

The 2010s became the decade of self-care

Nicole Karlis
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Science: Sloppy gift wrapping is better

Erick M. Mas - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

How junk food shapes the teenage brain

Amy Reichelt - The Conversation
Intense flames driven by extreme drought conditions, wind and hot weather sweep over a remote section of the San Bernardino National Forest during the Blue Cut Fire on August 18, 2016 near Wrightwood, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Our decade of climate crisis

Steven Strader
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Dollars for doctors

Hannah Fresques - ProPublica
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Wildfire smoke is getting worse

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, attends a working lunch at the Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Osaka, Japan, on Friday, June 28, 2019. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP)

Problems getting cheaper Canadian drugs

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo, a Chinese boy cycles past cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China. Led by cutbacks in China and India, construction of new coal-fired power plants is falling worldwide, improving chances climate goals can be met despite earlier pessimism, three environmental groups said Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) (AP)

Coal isn’t dying. It moved to Asia

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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