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- December 16, 2016
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- November 22, 2016
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Aaron Putnam of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine is searching for the switches that caused the Earth to lurch out of
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A mystery from some 18,000 years ago directly impacts how scientists understand the threat of climate change today.
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