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In this May 20, 2017 photo provided by Don Walter, Clemson University undergraduates Erin Thompson and Harrison Leiendecker practice using a Citizen CATE telescope during the South Carolina CATE training Workshop in Orangeburg, S.C. For the 2017 eclipse over the United States, the National Science Foundation-funded movie project nicknamed Citizen CATE will have more than 200 volunteers trained and given special small telescopes and tripods to observe the sun at 68 locations in the exact same way. The thousands of images from the citizen-scientists will be combined for a movie of the usually hard-to-see sun’s edge. (Don Walter via AP)

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More than spectacle: Eclipses create science and so can you

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 14, 2017

FILE - In this July 21, 2017 file photo, researchers look out from the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as the sun sets over sea ice floating on the Victoria Strait along the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Studies show the Arctic is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Scientists are concerned because impacts of a warming Arctic may be felt elsewhere. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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Science Says: Fast-melting Arctic sign of bad global warming

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 14, 2017

FILE - In this June 20, 2017, file photo, a local temperature sign reads 120-degrees as temperatures climb to near-record highs in Phoenix. As President Donald Trump touts new oil pipelines and pledges to revive the nation’s struggling coal mines, federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

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US scientists contradict Trump’s climate claims`

by Michael Biesecker Associated Press, and Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 9, 2017

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, a haul truck with a 250-ton capacity carries coal from the Spring Creek strip mine near Decker, Mont. As President Donald Trump touts new oil pipelines and pledges to revive the nation’s struggling coal mines, federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

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US scientists contradict Trump’s climate claims

by Michael Biesecker Associated Press, and Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 8, 2017

In this illustration by Marianne Collins/Royal Ontario Museum shows a Capinatator praetermissus.

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Scientists ID tiny prehistoric sea worm with 50 head spines

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 3, 2017

FILE - In this March 12, 2015 file photo, plastic trash is compacted into bales ready for further processing at the waste processing dump on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus. A new massive study finds that production of plastic and the hard-to-breakdown synthetic waste is soaring in huge numbers. The study says since 1950, industry has made more than 9 billion tons of plastics. That’s enough to cover the entire country of Argentina ankle deep in the stuff. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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World’s plastic waste could bury Manhattan 2 miles deep

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressJuly 19, 2017

FILE - In this June 22, 2017, file photo, beachgoers enter the water even though double-red flags are flying, warning of dangerous conditions and extremely rough surf in the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy, in Seaside, Fla. An extensive first-of-its-kind study says global warming is likely to hit southern and poorer U.S. counties hard. The study released June 29, used more than 29,000 computer simulations to estimate different global warming scenarios that effect energy costs, agricultural production, deaths and other factors. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

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Climate change: Southern, poor counties to be hit hardest in US

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressJune 29, 2017

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2015, file photo, a boat lies wrecked and stuck on a sea wall after it crashed into the back of Foreign Minister Tony de Brum's house on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth’s temperatures and the world’s seas will keep rising to a point where some island states won’t survive through the end of the next century. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, file)

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US exiting climate pact may doom some small islands

by Seth Borenstein Associated Press, and Nick Perry Associated PressJune 22, 2017

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2016 file photo, a man carries a young boy over his shoulder as he walks among beach goers enjoying unusually warm winter temperatures in Encinitas, Calif. Global warming’s milder winters will likely nudge Americans off the couch more in the future, a rare, small benefit of climate change, a new study finds. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)

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At least global warming may get Americans off the couch more

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressApril 25, 2017

In this artist rendering provided by M. Weiss Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a newly-discovered rocky exoplanet, LHS 1140b.

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Another nearby planet found that may be just right for life

by Seth Borenstein Associated PressApril 19, 2017