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Mental stress on rise as coastal towns confront surging climate threats

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When community leaders in the town of Piermont, just north of New York City, ask residents, "How long do you want to live here?" the question is more than a personal one.
Sebastien Malo
06/21/2019

Floods claimed 88 lives, destroyed 17,000 homes and damaged 82,000, China

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At least 88 people have died and 17 are still missing as a result of severe floods and landslides affecting parts of southwest China since last week.The worst affected are provinces of Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong and Chongqing. 
Teo Blašković
06/21/2019

Scientists amazed as Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years early

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Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared.
Matthew Green
06/18/2019

India Heat Waves 2019

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Climate science at a glanceExtreme heat and heat waves around the world are some of the clearest impacts of climate change on extreme weather.Four out of five record-hot days globally are now amplified by global warming.

Recent scorching temperatures in Kuwait and Pakistan confirmed as third and fourth hottest on Earth

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Following years of tireless investigation, the World Meteorological Organization on Tuesday announced that two recent temperature readings have been accepted among the hottest recorded on Earth.One of the scorching marks came from the Middle East, the other from South Asia.
Ian Livingston
06/18/2019

June has had 3 times more rain than last year in Detroit

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Rain, rain, go away. It’s been another wet month in the Motor City.The amount of precipitation in Detroit so far in June is three times what it was this time last year, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Kevin Kacan.
Anna Bauman
06/17/2019

Honolulu, Hawaii, Has Set More Than a Dozen Record Highs in the Past Month

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Honolulu, Hawaii, has experienced a string of record-breaking high temperatures since mid-May, including a tie of its all-time June high temperature earlier this month.
Chris Dolce
06/18/2019

I’ve Climbed Everest 21 Times. It’s Not the Mountain It Used to Be.

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I was born in Thame, Nepal, around 1960. I’m not exactly sure what year. When I was 12 years old, my father passed away.
Apa Sherpa as told to Emily Atkin
06/18/2019

Climate change, weather anomalies are making wildfires harder to control. Exhibit A: A dual blaze that nearly overran two Utah County towns.

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Freaky weather conditions unleashed by climate change and “never seen before” in Utah’s highlands are making wildfires more difficult and dangerous to control because fire managers’ experience is becoming increasingly irrelevant for predicting the behavior of blazes.
Brian Maffly
06/16/2019

Wildfires are 'burning longer' and 'harder to control,' officials warn

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US Forest Service and Interior Department officials warned senators Thursday that the upcoming wildfire season would be worse than last year's, which left dozens of people dead in California, saying that "if we're lucky, this year will simply be a challenging one."
Ellie Kaufman
06/13/2019
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