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Stony coral tissue loss disease is sweeping through Caribbean reefs. Can these students find the answers?

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Stony coral tissue loss disease is sweeping through Caribbean reefs. Can these students find the answers?

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New stable isotope analysis questions the origin of black carbon in the ocean

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New stable isotope analysis questions the origin of black carbon in the ocean

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What can the Pacific Gas and Electric blackouts over the California wildfire risk teach us about the future of power grids?

What can the Pacific Gas and Electric blackouts over the California wildfire risk teach us about the future of power grids?

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How do we solve the global refugee crisis, climate change, fake news, and other complex problems facing the world today?

How do we solve the global refugee crisis, climate change, fake news, and other complex problems facing the world today?

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Northeastern professor’s new public art installations throughout New England bring climate change home

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Northeastern professor’s new public art installations throughout New England bring climate change home

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What works–and what doesn’t–when it comes to coping with climate change on the coasts of Hong Kong, Malaysia, and the Gulf of Maine

What works–and what doesn’t–when it comes to coping with climate change on the coasts of Hong Kong, Malaysia, and the Gulf of Maine

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Northeastern professors question evidence and reality in collaborative art exhibit at Boston Cyberarts
Professors pose at art exhibit

Northeastern professors question evidence and reality in collaborative art exhibit at Boston Cyberarts

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Northeastern marine science professor Kathleen Lotterhos says U.N. ocean and cryosphere report poses evolutionary challenges for marine life.
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Northeastern marine science professor Kathleen Lotterhos says U.N. ocean and cryosphere report poses evolutionary challenges for marine life.

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Could the youth who organized global climate strike be uniquely positioned to influence world leaders?
Climate change activists participate in an environmental demonstration as part of a global youth-led day of action, Friday Sept. 20, 2019, in New York. A wave of climate change protests swept across the globe Friday, with hundreds of thousands of young people sending a message to leaders headed for a U.N. summit: The warming world can't wait for action. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Could the youth who organized global climate strike be uniquely positioned to influence world leaders?

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Journalism student Ysabelle Kempe took Humans of New York approach to document the effects of climate change in six US states
“I think the best thing journalists can do in their reporting on climate change is to make it more human,” says Ysabelle Kempe, a journalism student at Northeastern. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

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Journalism student Ysabelle Kempe took Humans of New York approach to document the effects of climate change in six US states

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Natural shoreline barriers on US coasts play a key role in protecting coastal communities from storms like Hurricane Dorian
This satellite image, taken on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019 and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows Hurricane Dorian moving off the east coast of Florida in the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA via AP

Natural shoreline barriers on US coasts play a key role in protecting coastal communities from storms like Hurricane Dorian

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The Amazon rainforest has been burning for weeks. Here’s why that matters.
Neri dos Santos Silva watches an encroaching fire threat after digging trenches to keep the flames from spreading to the farm he works on, in the Nova Santa Helena municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Under increasing international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro recently authorized use of the military to battle the massive blazes. AP Photo/Leo Correa

The Amazon rainforest has been burning for weeks. Here’s why that matters.

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