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The South Faces a Summer With Fewer Peaches

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For almost all Southerners, a summer without a seemingly endless supply of peaches is unthinkable. But growers say the unthinkable is about to happen in America’s cobbler belt. A double punch of unseasonably warm winter weather and an ill-timed freeze has devastated the peach crop.
Kim Severson
05/30/2017

Ominous and overlooked: Back-bay flooding plagues millions

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[The lives and land of millions] of people worldwide...are being dampened by back-bay flooding — inundation of waterfront areas behind barrier islands where wind and tides can create flooding during storms or even on sunny days.
Wayne Parry
05/30/2017

How a Melting Arctic Changes Everything

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The world as a whole has warmed about 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1880. Arctic temperatures have risen twice that amount during the same time period.
Eric Roston and Blacki Migliozzi
04/19/2017

Storms Kill At Least 16 Near Moscow; 60,000 Evacuated

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The death toll in Moscow and its suburbs has risen to at least 16 after strong thunderstorms and high winds buffeted the area on Monday. 
Eric Chaney
05/30/2017

Tropical Cyclone Mora Makes Landfall in Bangladesh; 3 Killed, Thousands of Homes Destroyed

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Three people died and thousands of homes on some remote islands were destroyed after Tropical Cyclone Mora made landfall Tuesday.
Eric Chaney and Pam Wright
05/30/2017

U.S. Daily Record Highs Outnumber Lows 5 to 1 since 2010

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As detailed in the caption above, Galveston, Texas, has set an amazing number of heat records in the last few years. Blogger Matt Lanza (@mattlanza) recently wondered if any other city in the U.S. has broken so many heat records in the same span of time (since 2010).
Christopher C. Burt
05/29/2017

Wettest May on record in Montgomery busts the drought

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Article excerptLast Saturday’s torrential rains have led to the wettest May in Montgomery on record, a big reason why the drought is over in the region.
Marty Roney
05/25/2017

Tornadoes down trees and damage buildings across four counties

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Tornadoes cut a path of destruction across Iredell, Davie, Yadkin and Stokes counties Wednesday, leaving behind broken trees, a damaged school gym, and dozens of damaged or destroyed houses.
Wesley Young and John Hinton
05/24/2017

Infectious disease collides with changing climate

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Brazil, hit hard by the Zika virus in 2015 and 2016, is once again in the throes of a devastating mosquito-borne disease.
Mark Johnson and Ryan Patterson
05/24/2017

What we’ve learned about hurricanes and climate change since Katrina

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Kerry Emanuel
05/24/2017
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