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Week of 9/8 Student 1 Emma Vandiver Hurricane Irma "Victims to lament" Student 2 Virginia DiMeo Could Switchgrass Help China's Air Quality?

Week of 9/15 Student 2
 * @Why the US is threatened by more frequent flooding

Week of 9/22 Student 1 Iustina Banerji When it comes to the threat of extinction, size matters Student 2

Week of 9/29 Student 1 Udai Virk Yes, Climate Change Made Harvey and Irma Worse Student 2 Joydeep Mukherjee Alaska's Permafrost is Thawing

Week of 10/6 Student 1 Kelly Wu European sea bass show chronic impairment after exposure to crude oil Student 2

Week of 10/27 Student 1: SriPallavi Yendamuri : For an endangered Animal, a Fire or Hurricane can mean the End Student 2


 * End of Quarter 1**

Week of 11/3 Student 1 Student 2

Week of 11/9 (A Thursday!) Cynthia Liu Endangered apes saved from pet trade Student 2

Week of 11/17 Aman Kapoor Amazon's recovery from forest losses limited by climate change Kelly Wu UK 'will support' neonicotinoid pesticide ban

Week of 12/1 Virginia DiMeo Climate Change Could Increase Volcano Eruptions Grace Ledford Breeding Mutant Animals for Trophy Hunting

Week of 12/8 Student 1 Student 2

Week of 12/15 Virginia DiMeo How California Can Mitigate Future Wildfire Damage Jacob Thayil Delhi's Deadly Air: How India is falling short on fighting pollution

Week of 1/5 Student 1 Student 2

Week of 1/12 SriPallavi Yendamuri: tsunami threat passes after strong earthquake off Central America Student 2


 * End of Quarter 2**

Week of 1/26 Jacob Thayil Billions of Plastic Pieces Litter Coral in Asia and Australia
 * Hydraulic fracturing and regional earthquakes

Week of 2/2 Virginia DiMeo Think of Honeybees as Livestock Not Wildlife, Argue Experts Iustina Banerji Most of the last 11,000 years cooler than past decade in North America, Europe

Week of 2/9 Cynthia Liu Scientists' plea on threat to ocean giants Kelly Wu Gassy farm soils are a shockingly large source of these air pollutants

Week of 2/16 Aman Kapoor Why Capetown is Running Out of Water, and Who's next

Week of 2/23 Student 1 Student 2

Week of 3/2 Grace Ledford Pacific Cyclones Cause Snow in Rome
 * NASA releases ominous temperature report

Week of 3/9 Student 1 Joydeep Mukherjee Wind and solar power could meet four-fifths of US electricity demand, study finds Student 2

Week of 3/16 Virginia DiMeo Coffee May Come with a Cancer Warning in California Student 2

Week of 3/23 SriPallavi Yendamuri Global Warming puts species at risk
 * @Climate change and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault


 * End of Quarter 3**

Week of 4/13 Kelly Wu @West Greenland Ice Sheet melting at the fastest rate in centuries Iustina Banerji New Source of Global Nitrogen Discovered

Week of 4/20 Aman Kapoor Lead found in hundreds of Chicago homes' tap water, report says Brooke Chow @Deforestation in Indonesia

Week of 4/27 Grace Ledford: Coral Bleaching Threatens the Diversity of Reef Fish Brooke Chow: Land loss in Louisiana

Week of 5/4 Student 1 Student 2

Week of 5/11 Virginia DiMeo @Engineering a Plastic-Eating Enzyme Jacob Thayil Smothered by smog, Polish cities rank among Europe's dirtiest

Week of 5/18 Iustina Banerji Weeds will take over from kelp in high CO2 oceans Student 2

Week of 5/25 __ (NO COMMENTING ON THIS WEEK PAST QUARTERS END) __ Brooke Chow @Philadelphia's green makeover Student 2


 * End of Quarter 4**