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Warming waters: Lake Superior nearly breaks water temperature record

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As late summer waves crashed around him on the beach along Park Point, 10-year-old Gage Jones of Superior, Wis., splashed in the often-frigid Lake Superior water."It's not the warmest it's been, but I think it's pretty good. Enough to swim in," he said.
Dan Kraker
09/09/2016

Scientists Are Racing to Unravel an Ice Avalanche Mystery

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In July, one of the largest ice avalanches ever recorded ripped through a remote area of Tibet. Scientists are now working in the region to understand what caused such a massive chunk of ice to break off a glacier and wreak havoc on the landscape and people living in the region.
Brian Kahn
09/08/2016

This is New York in the not-so-distant future

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Klaus Jacob, a German professor affiliated with Columbia’s University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is a geophysicist by profession and a doomsayer by disposition...
Andrew Rice
09/07/2016

France’s farmers on suicide watch as wheat crop fails

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Desperate French farmers are increasingly turning to newly created suicide hotlines as the worst wheat harvest in a generation devastates their livelihoods.
Nicholas Vinocur
08/25/2016

Connecticut’s traditional fishing catch is heading north

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Connecticut’s lobster landings topped 3.7 million pounds a year, worth $12 million, in the late 1990s, but by 2014 had diminished to about 127,000 pounds worth a little more than $600,000.
Jan Ellen Spiegel
08/29/2016

Hurricane Hermine 2016

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Hurricane Hermine highlights climate change risks Hermine intensified quickly over unusually warm seas, growing into an 80-mph Category 1 hurricane on September 1 that made landfall just after midnight on September 2 near St.

Thousands of fish die in Yellowstone River

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An unprecedented fish kill has closed nearly 100 river miles of the Yellowstone River in Montana, as officials try to contain a parasite that is killing thousands of whitefish.
Amanda Watts
08/24/2016

Antarctic Melt 1992 -

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Climate science at a glance Antarctica has experienced rapid increases in regional surface air temperature as well as changing ocean currents linked to global warming. Antarctica broke its hottest temperature on record in February 2020, beating the previous record set i

Blue Cut Fire 2016

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Hot, dry, and windy conditions set the stage for the Blue Cut Fire's rapid spread On August 16, conditions in Cajon Pass in southern California were primed for wildfires.

Sudan floods: Villages submerged as death toll rises

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Thousands of houses have been destroyed and several villages submerged after flooding triggered by torrential rainfall killed 100 people across Sudan, according to an aid group in the country.
08/15/2016
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