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Onion Creek flood mitigation could cost up to $100 million

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Onion Creek homeowners are evaluating their options when it comes to fighting future floods.
Melanie Torre
05/16/2017

Report: Nearly half of California salmon species on track for extinction

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Article excerptBiologists spent 18 months analyzing 32 types of fish native to California, including coho, chinook, chum and pink salmon and rainbow, cutthroat and redband trout.
Peter Fimrite
05/17/2017

Battered! Heavy rains destroy roads, bridges; flood communities

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Article excerptThe Government says it is too early to give an estimate, but the cost to the country from relentless rains over the past three days could be staggering, considering that the damage from showers just a few weeks ago was preliminarily put at close to $500 million.
Alpha Saunders
05/17/2017

Severe Storms in the Plains Produce Grapefruit-Sized Hail, Possible Tornadoes

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Severe storms tearing through the Plains on Thursday produced massive, damaging hail and several reports of tornadoes.
Sean Breslin and Pam Wright
05/12/2017

As heat index climbs, emergency visits, deaths rise in New England

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A new study that analyzed the health effects of summer weather in small to midsize population centers in three states shows that deaths and emergency department visits begin to rise significantly across the region well before the heat index hits the triple digits.
05/10/2017

Climate Change Is Turning the American Southwest into 'Mad Max'

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But new research out today from a team led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows this might be more serious a situation
Jack Holmes
05/10/2017

High Streamflow is Increasing, Raising Flood Risks

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With the frequency of heavy precipitation increasing across most of the U.S., it follows that streamflow levels may be increasing as well.
05/10/2017

Cyclone Donna churns in the South Pacific

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Tropical Cyclone Donna became the third named storm of the South Pacific cyclone season on May 3, taking advantage of warm waters and favorable atmospheric conditions. Donna’s path west and then south took the cyclone through the island nation of Vanuatu and then towards New Caledonia.
Tom Di Liberto
05/10/2017

Sea Level, Risk Of Flooding Rising Rapidly In Mid-Atlantic

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During the 20th century, sea levels along the highly populated U.S. Mid-Atlantic coastline between New York and Virginia rose faster than in any other century during the past 4,300 years, according to a new study.
Andrew Freedman
12/14/2013

Alaska tundra has become a carbon emitter rather than carbon sink, study finds

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The tundra of Alaska and other Arctic regions once soaked up atmospheric carbon and locked it in the frozen ground, reducing the amount of earth-warming greenhouse gas in the air.
Yereth Rosen
05/09/2017
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