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Victoria Barrett aged 18 years is suing the Trump administration over climate change.

Victoria Barrett, a college student in Wisconsin, aged 18, is suing the Trump administration over climate change.

Plus: we meet one of the first meteorologists to talk about climate change on TV in the US; we learn the history of the design of nuclear fallout shelter signs made during the Cold War; we visit the laboratory of a β€œwood detective” in Germany; we hear the β€œvoice" of an iceberg and it’s pretty eerie; and we dance to some β€œye-ye” music sung by a NASA scientist in California.

(Image: Victoria Barrett is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Credit: Courtesy of Victoria Barrett)

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Mon 6 Nov 2017 06:32GMT

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