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Science and Technology:

¶ The World Meteorological Organization is expected to declare 2016 the hottest year in recorded history next month, just as the United States prepares to inaugurate a president who questions if climate change is even real. While the election of Donald Trump has stunned the world, record warmth no longer feels surprising. [The Recorder]

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¶ Siberian permafrost is one of the things being hardest hit by climate change. Now, in addition to the melting permafrost causing mass die-offs of reindeer and resurrecting long-dead strains of “zombie anthrax”, it appears the very cities built on it are also in imminent danger, according to new Russian-US research. [IFLScience]

World:

¶ Vestas secured two orders for turbines totaling 74.15 MW for wind farms in China. The state-owned power company…