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It’s not just the American West and British Columbia burning up. A fire has sparked in western Greenland, an odd occurrence for an island known more for ice than fire.
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Our changing climate seems set to disrupt just about everything. From rising sea levels to ocean acidification, the list of negative consequences from climate change is endless. But one area that often goes unmentioned in the climate change discussion is sex.
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Lake Palcacocha is an example of the immediate threats Peru and other developing countries are facing from climate change.
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Climate science at a glanceClimate change loads storms with more moisture, increasing the threat of flooding.[1][2]New Orleans has seen a 62 percent increase
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Climate science at a glance
In the US, western regions set the most records for the number of heat wave events in the 2000s.
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Climate science at a glance
The fingerprint of global warming has been firmly identified in the increasing intensity, duration and frequency of extreme heat events globally.[7]
The increasing frequency and i
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Extreme weather, including more intense rain, snow and flooding, is becoming more frequent as the climate changes because the warmer air in the lower atmosphere is able to hold more moisture. Since the 1950s, extreme events have increased in every region of the U.S.
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The average temperature in Death Valley last month was a stifling, suffocating 107.4 degrees. It was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, and the second-hottest in the world — by just a fraction of a degree.
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An already-hot summer has kicked into overdrive over a large swath of southeast Europe, where one of the worst droughts in decades has taken hold this summer. Temperatures again soared above 100°F on Thursday across large sections of drought-ravaged Italy.
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Seattle has posted only three days in the triple digits in the last 123 years. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Seattle was set July 29, 2009, when the mercury reached 103 degrees.
