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One of Alaska’s warmest springs on record is causing a dangerous thaw

by Sarah Kaplan The Washington PostApril 19, 2019

By SARAH KAPLANThe Washington PostUTQIAGVIK, Alaska — Bryan Thomas doesn’t want any more “wishy-washy conversations about climate change.”For four years, he has served as station chief of the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, America’s…

Dozens of students take part in a demonstration against global warming "Global climate strike", in Rome, Italy, 15 March 2019. Students from several schools across the city are taking part in a massive global student strike movement called #FridayForFuture which was sparked by Greta Thunberg of Sweden, a sixteen year old climate activist who has been protesting outside the Swedish parliament every Friday since August 2018. ANSA/ALESSANDRO DI MEO

Strikes draw thousands to the streets in cities across the globe

by Griff Witte The Washington Post, Luisa Beck The Washington Post, Brady Dennis The Washington Post, and Sarah Kaplan The Washington PostMarch 15, 2019

Alexandria Villasenor, 13, skips school to strike in front of the United Nations, with signs reading: “School Strike 4 Climate” and “Cop24 Failed Us.” MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Sarah Blesener

Student, 13, protests at the U.N. to call for climate action

by Sarah Kaplan The Washington PostFebruary 18, 2019

The Most Distant Space Encounter Is Happening Now

by Sarah Kaplan The Washington PostDecember 31, 2018

FILE - This image made available by NASA on Friday, July 24, 2015 shows a combination of images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft with enhanced colors to show differences in the composition and texture of Pluto's surface. The images were taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)

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Expanding the Limits of Our Reach

by Sarah Kaplan The Washington PostDecember 31, 2018

This October 2001 image shows the Mississippi River Delta. MUST CREDIT: Courtesy of Jesse Allen/NASA

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Scientists Plot New Mars Rover

by Sarah Kaplan The Washington PostNovember 19, 2018

The IceCube lab lit by stars and the southern lights. MUST CREDIT: Photo for National Science Foundation by Martin Wolf

by Sarah Kaplan The Washington PostJuly 14, 2018

This May 27, 2018 photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, taken from a search aircraft, shows an outbreak of Pāhoehoe lava that was very rapidly moving north down Luana Street into a portion of Leilani Estates as searchers attempted to evacuate a resident who was about to be stranded by the fast-moving flow, near Pahoa on the island of Hawaii. By monitoring the flow they were able to advise those on the ground of its progress. (U.S. Geological Survey via AP)

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by Scott Wilson The Washington Post, and Sarah Kaplan The Washington PostJune 3, 2018

Scott Wing examines a fossil in the Bighorn Basin, where scientists seek evidence of 56-million-year-old climate catastrophe. MUST CREDIT: Laura Soul.

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Long Search Reveals Fossils From a Rapidly Warming Era

by Sarah Kaplan The Washington PostApril 8, 2018

Left: One of the footprints found on Calvert Island. Right: A digitally enhanced version of the same image.
MUST CREDIT: Duncan McLaren

Oldest Footprints in N. America Found

by Sarah Kaplan The Washington PostMarch 30, 2018