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As temperatures and heat indexes crept to record-breaking levels last week, the men and women inside of Alabama prisons sweltered.
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A fire raged out of control on the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria Monday, forcing evacuations as flames rose so high even water-dropping planes could not operate in what was dubbed an "environmental tragedy".
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As climate change pushes sea levels higher around the world, the water is rising especially fast along the East Coast of the U.S. as the land simultaneously sinks.
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Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will be required to take less water from the Colorado River for the first time next year under a set of agreements that aim to keep enough water in Lake Mead to reduce the risk of a crash.
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Climate science at a glanceExtreme heat is among the most obvious and well documented effects of climate change.The signal of climate change is especially clear in the western United States where a formal attribution study has made the link.
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At around 3 am on November 9, 2018, photographer Stuart Palley stood on the sidewalk of a residential street in Thousand Oaks, California. A wildfire known as the Hill Fire was burning down from the foothills, driven by Santa Ana winds and fueled by unseasonably hot and dry conditions.
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The heatwave that baked parts of the Bay Area in triple digits on Thursday ushered in record-breaking and record-tying temperatures across the region for a second day straight.
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Dozens of hikers set out for the summit of Piestewa Peak on a July evening, their flashlights dancing in the dark. “You feeling O.K.?” Trevor Plautz, a park ranger, asked two women, one of whom had stumbled and was breathing hard.
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Parts of Oklahoma and Texas are now in drought.This drought has developed rapidly enough to be considered a flash drought.Some locations had one of their driest Julys on record, sending topsoil moisture plummeting.An ongoing heat wave, and typical August heat, may
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The heat index hit 100 degrees at 6 a.m. Thursday in Galveston, Tex. And, it didn’t drop below that until 10 p.m. Friday night. It’s part of a larger heat wave across the Deep South and Southern Plains that shows no signs of letting up through at least next week.
