Welcome back to another Monday blog post! To all of my friends here in the US, Happy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

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Here are our picks for this year's top climate change stories. But this year wasn't all doom and gloom, because researchers also came up with mitigation strategies to prevent the worst effects of ...