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Kate Yoder is a contributing writer from Grist.org.

Doctor and pharmacist Gilles Leboucher prepares a diluted solution of phages from three different concentrated types of phages on March 8, 2019, at the Croix-Rousse hospital, in Lyon, central-eastern France. (Romain Lafabregue/AFP/Getty Images)

Empty labs, abandoned research: Coronavirus puts science on hold

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Pump jacks are seen on the Bakken Shale Formation, near Williston, North Dakota, September 6, 2016. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

Gas and oil will save us all, say oil and gas companies

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Birth strike, flygskam, Pyrocene: The words that defined our planet in 2019

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A gas flare at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 in Williston, North Dakota. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Big Oil spent $3.6 billion to clean up its image, and it’s working

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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)

“Hurricane truthers”: Bonkers conspiracies are putting lives in danger

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Help! There’s a climate denier at my dinner table.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AP/Cliff Owen)

Wait — Republicans used to like the Green New Deal?

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Venice suffers worst flooding for 50 years (Anna Henly / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

It’s not just Venice. Climate change imperils ancient treasures everywhere.

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This undated image provided by journal Science shows a campsite in Pucuncho Basin. Stone tools and other artifacts have revealed the presence of hunter-gatherers at about 14,700 feet above sea level, between 12,000 and 12,500 years ago in the Peruvian Andes. (AP Photo/Science, Matthew Koehler) (AP)

How humans kicked off the Pyrocene, a new “age of fire”

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FILE - In this May 11, 2003, file photo, Microbiologist Ruth Bryan works with BG nerve agent simulant in Class III Glove Box in the Life Sciences Test Facility at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. The specialized airtight enclosure is also used for hands-on work with anthrax and other deadly agents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expected to receive dead spores. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File) (AP)

This Halloween, scare your friends with some climate crisis vocabulary

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Floodwaters associated with Hurricane Matthew surround homes and an ambulance on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, in Lumberton, N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory said Thursday the number of power outages was down to about 55,000, from a high of nearly 900,000 when the storm hit. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco) (AP)

If facts don’t make you prepare for a hurricane, what does?

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A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

How much will climate change cost us?

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What should we call “climate change”? It’s political.

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Google searches for “climate change” finally beat out “Game of Thrones”

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On Sept. 17 at 1:30 p.m. EDT (17:30 UTC), the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite showed newly formed Tropical Depression 11 just after it made landfall along the Texas coast. Credit: (NASA Worldview)

Imelda dumped 40 inches of rain on Texas — and it wasn’t even a hurricane?

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Fossil fuel companies roll out a new era of spin

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On climate change, younger Republicans now sound like Democrats

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JAKARTA, INDONESIA: A haze cover the Jakarta bay skyline in Jakarta, 10 June 2007. Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change as global warming threatens to raise sea levels and flood coastal farming areas, threatening food security. Meanwhile, Indonesia could lose 2,000 small islands by 2030 due to a rise in sea levels as a result of climate change, Indonesia Environment Minister, Rachmat Witoelar said. AFP PHOTO/Ahmad ZAMRONI (Photo credit should read AHMAD ZAMRONI/AFP/Getty Images) (Ahmah Zamroni/AFP/Getty)

Retreating from rising seas isn’t a win or a defeat — it’s reality

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How do countries cover climate change? Depends how rich they are.

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An evangelical leader calls young Christians to save the planet

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FILE - In this March 15, 2017 file photo, U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson approaches to participate in the annual joint military exercise called Foal Eagle between South Korea and the United States, at Busan port in Busan, South Korea. (Jo Jung-ho/Yonhap via AP, File) (AP)

The U.S. military emits more CO2 than most countries

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Is it time to retire “climate change” for “climate crisis”?

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Students gather with signs for a Climate Strike rally on the campus of Columbia University, Friday March 15, 2019, in New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Climate activists: Marching might work

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Natural gas gets a Trump-friendly rebrand as “freedom gas”

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