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Marine heat waves, like the one behind Hawaii’s sweltering summer, poised to be ‘new normal’

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 Five years ago, a vast stretch of warm water emerged across the North Pacific Ocean, extending from Alaska to California to Hawaii.
Melanie Yamaguchi
10/17/2019

Northeast Bomb Cyclone Lashing New England With Up to 90 MPH Wind Gusts, Sets October Low-Pressure Records

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A bomb cyclone lashing the Northeast has left over a half-million residents without power, downed numerous trees and set new October low-pressure records.
10/17/2019

New report highlights Alaska’s last five years of dramatic climate change

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Alaska’s climate is changing, thanks to human-caused global warming, and the effects are widespread and sometimes dangerous....
John Dos Passos Coggin
10/15/2019

Arctic tundra transforms into flower-filled meadow due to climate change

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Meadows are bursting to life in a once-barren tundra in a graphic sign of the warming climate.Fields of brightly coloured flowers are springing up across the Russian Arctic just over one thousand miles from the North Pole....
Will Stewart & Shivali Best
10/16/2019

Tropical Storm Melissa and hunter’s moon lead to tidal flooding along Potomac and Chesapeake Bay

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Since Friday, numerous locations along the tidal Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay have endured coastal flooding, due to the departure of Tropical Storm Melissa and the coming hunter’s full moon.
Jason Samenow
10/13/2019

In the Alps, Keeping Tabs on Melting Ice

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Crumbling mountains and unsteady glaciers are familiar challenges in the Alps, a region with a long history of aggressive engineering against the elements.
Paige McClanahan
10/11/2019

Climate change partly to blame for early bushfire season

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Summer might be more than six weeks away but out-of-control bushfires have already torn across parts of eastern Australia in recent days, killing two people, destroying homes and threatening more lives.
Chris Lucas and Sarah Harris
10/10/2019

Tumultuous weather pattern triggers historic snowstorm in Plains, Nor’easter and western windstorm

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It’s fall, but that hasn’t stopped wild weather from every season from materializing across the Lower 48 this week.
Matthew Cappucci
10/10/2019

Super Typhoon Hagibis puts on a rare display of power in western Pacific as it churns toward Japan

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Super Typhoon Hagibis was on the brink of reclaiming its Category 5 intensity as of Tuesday morning Eastern time, having reorganized its inner core, known as the eyewall, where the strongest winds and heaviest rains are found.
Andrew Freedman
10/08/2019

New England winters are on the decline due to climate change, study says

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New Englanders may take cold, snowy winters for granted, but those are in jeopardy due to climate change — and that could affect everything from forest ecosystems to human health, researchers say.
Maria Lovato
10/07/2019
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