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Article excerptA sheriff’s deputy in Fort Bend County, on the southwest side of Houston, spotted a massive gator just sitting in the road in the rain in the county’s Old Orchard community.
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Climate change has caused the massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in the Yukon to retreat so much that its meltwater abruptly switched direction, in the first documented case of "river piracy" in modern times.
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Article excerptReady, set, race! It’s Marathon Monday in Boston, and the first of more than 30,000 participants in this year’s race bolted off the starting line this morning. Runners today are more likely to face warmer temperatures than when the iconic race began in 1897.
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Article excerptSierra snowpack will send nearly 500 billion gallons into swollen Walker and Carson riversNevada could see weeks of Katrina-style flooding when warm spring and summer sunshine melts the massive snowpack blanketing the Sierra Nevada.
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Article excerptHeavy rain and strong winds are lashing parts of New Zealand as Cyclone Cook, called the worst storm in decades, sweeps across the North Island.
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Article excerptLast year, Florida was waterlogged. This year, Florida is on fire.More than 100 active wildfires are burning across the state right now, according to the Florida Forest Service. Twenty-seven of them are scorching more than 100 acres each.
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Article excerptWater rescues were reported Tuesday morning in the central Texas town of Killeen, where heavy rain fell for hours and triggered flash flooding.
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Article excerptWe’re in the waning days of a strange season for tropical cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere—and there’s been no season at all yet in the Northern Hemisphere. The latter isn’t all that unusual, given that it’s only mid-April.
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Article excerptIt’s not just your imagination. March 2017 has been historically warm in Phoenix. When the temperature topped 90 degrees early Tuesday afternoon, the city tied a 45-year-old record.
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Article excerptA summerlike heat dome, that has baked the Southwest United States since last week, has oozed into the Plains where high temperatures will threaten records Monday for a second straight day.
