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50-year-old records fall as extreme heat bakes western US

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Dangerous heat gripped the western United States on Monday and Tuesday, toppling several longstanding high temperature records that were well into the triple digits.
Chaffin Mitchell
08/07/2019

Typhoon Lekima Rapidly Intensifies and Poses a Potential Threat to Japan's Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and Eastern China

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Maximum sustained winds in Lekima increased from 60 mph to 100 mph in the 24 hours ending 5 a.m. EDT Wednesday. That means Lekima has met the requirement for rapid intensification which is a wind speed increase of 35 mph or more in 24 hours or less.
08/07/2019

Alaska's sea ice has completely melted away

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Alaska's exceptional summer continues. 
Mark Kaufman
08/05/2019

Earth’s temperatures are skewed hot. Expected cool weather in a few spots doesn’t change that.

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Temperatures last week hit 108.7 degrees in Paris, part of a days-long heat wave that toppled all-time record high temperatures in at least five European countries.
Matthew Cappucci
07/30/2019

Hottest Month on Record July 2019

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Climate science at a glance Human activities, principally the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, are causing the global average temperature to increase at a dangerous rate, unprecedented in human history.

European Heat Wave July 2019

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Climate science at a glance The extreme heat events observed during the summer of 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere found that it is "would not have occurred without human-induced climate change.”[1] Extreme h

Boston Has Become New York

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The temperature in Washington has topped 90 degrees for 12 straight days. While I was sitting inside during one of those days trying to avoid the heat, I spent some time making a chart. You can see it above.
David Leonhardt
07/23/2019

U.S. Soldiers Falling Ill, Dying in the Heat as Climate Warms

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Cline was one of at least 17 service members to die of heat exposure during training exercises at U.S. military bases since 2008.
07/23/2019

Alaska salmon stream hits high temperature during heat wave

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 The science director for Cook Inletkeeper, a nonprofit organization that monitors the health of Cook Inlet, wrote a paper two years ago on what salmon streams might be like in the future with climate change.
07/21/2019

Alaska salmon stream hits high temperature during heat wave

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 The science director for Cook Inletkeeper, a nonprofit organization that monitors the health of Cook Inlet, wrote a paper two years ago on what salmon streams might be like in the future with climate change.
07/21/2019
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