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Houston, Texas, is seeing a rat spike this year, and so is New York City. In Chicago, rodent complaints for the early part of the summer have increased about 9 percent from last year, forcing city officials to start sprinkling the streets with rat birth control.
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Five attribution studies have found that global warming added to the deluge of rainfall dumped by Hurricane Harvey.[1][2]
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The Gulf of Maine, stretching from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia, is the latest in a growing list of global hotspots losing their kelp, including hundreds of miles in the Mediterranean Sea, off southern Japan and Australia, and parts of the California coast.
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Archivist prefaceAn extreme rainfall event swept through Kansas City on August 22, bringing up to 8.85 inches of rain in 24 hours to the town of Hillsdale, Kansas, located outside the city.[1] Based on precipitation
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More than 2,500,000 acres have burned there since April 1, nearly six times the typical amount for a full year.
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The government of Portugal has issued a state of public calamity as wildfires continue to burn across the country ahead of a weekend heat wave.More than 10,000 separate fires have been recorded across Portugal this year according to The Portugal News.
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They're called "ghost forests" — dead trees along vast swaths of coastline invaded by rising seas, something scientists call one of the most visible markers of climate change.
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Salmon and steelhead are in hot water — a problem scientists warn is going to get worse because of climate change.
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[S]cientist Stef Lhermitte at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands showed preliminary evidence that 2017 has seen the largest amount of wildfire activity s
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In what seems have become a monthly norm, the National Weather Service in Honolulu has issued another special weather statement warning of the possible effects from the predicted King Tides along Hawaii shores.
