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sunflower sea star

Sea stars pushed to edge of extinction by warming oceans

By Rochelle Baker | Climate Change

Despite worldwide oil glut, Trump releases plan to open Arctic to drilling

By Emily Holden | Climate Change

Australian firefighter inspecting rare tree saved from fire

A rare species of tree was saved from Australia’s wildfires. And something else happened

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

Sulphur wild horse in Southwestern Utah

Trump official says wild horses, not climate change, are “existential threat” to federal lands

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Norwegian authorities and a local fisherman helped free this beluga whale from a harness. Credit: Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries.

From Russia with blubber: a beluga whale spy on Arctic patrol?

By Matt Field | Climate Change, What We’re Reading