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In some countries temperatures are at their lowest in more than 50 years, causing misery for residents and headaches for authorities.Countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans have been hardest hit, with more than 70 deaths caused by the freezing weather.
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Climate change has already led to the vanishing of some bird species in parts of England, where intensively farmed land gives them no room to adapt to warming temperatures.
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Two more tropical disease-carrying mosquitoes have been found on the U.S. mainland for the first time, caught in traps near Florida's Everglades.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been stranded in major flooding in Thailand's south since January 1, 2017. Authorities reported Sunday, January 8, that at least 19 people have died and that military forces have been deployed to cope with massive flooding.
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Climate connections at-a-glance
A warmer atmosphere drives more extreme precipitation across all storm types, which in turn increases the the risk of flooding.
Warming temperatures convert snowfall to rainfall, which in turn can melt snow pack. Both factors increas
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Heat records shattered in central Europe heat wave
A heat wave brought record temperatures across Europe during late-June and early-July. On July 1, London experienced its hottest July maximum temperature on record: 98.1°F (36.7°C).
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Warm spring conditions linked to Southwestern Canada's drought
The 2015 extreme southwestern Canada drought was "likely an outcome of anthropogenically influenced warm spring conditions and naturally forced dry weather from May to July," according to the fifth edition of "Explaining Ext
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A heat wave brought blistering temperatures to the streets of Chile's capital city, Santiago, on Wednesday and broke a century-old record as thermometers reached 37.3 Celsius (99 degrees Fahrenheit)....
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Weather stations in Sydney, Australia recorded the hottest December night in 159 years on December 13 and 14, 2016, breaking all weather bureau records for the city.
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A decade ago Ndaizivei Nyamatsatse was the proud owner of 20 cows - a number that made him the envy of his neighbors in Zimbabwe's eastern province of Manicaland, where cattle are prized as a symbol of wealth.
