WEATHER UPS AND DOWNS
Weather-related stories were hard to ignore in 2017. In June, President Trump shocked the world when he announced that the U.S. would pull out of the Paris Agreement, a multinational treaty to combat climate change. And then there was the devastating hurricane season, which produced a pair of major hurricanes that devastated Puerto Rico and other Caribbean Islands as well as the parts of the mainland U.S.
But the year also saw the rise of several “green” solutions to weather-related problems, including the creation of “living shorelines” and rain gardens to save coastal communities from flooding and rising seas. And researchers developed a technology to scrub carbon dioxide from the air and put it back into the ground — think of it as a carbon “vacuum cleaner” — and explored some wacky but promising ideas for how to control the weather.
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