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The Mississippi River annexed Jerry and Sue Eller’s backyard, invaded their basement and converted their street into a boat ramp.
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The difficulties of insuring Africa as climate change accelerates continue to mount. Cyclone Kenneth, following hard on the heels of March’s Cyclone Idai, hit Mozambique on Thursday and has flattened villages in the north of the country, leaving an estimated 700,000 people at risk.
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Ottawa is fighting massive spring floods that hit areas along the Ottawa River on Friday, April 26, 2019. A state of emergency has been declared in at least 14 communities in the region.
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Climate science at a glance
Global warming is increasing water vapor in the air, which in turn is fueling extreme rainfall, increasing the threat of flooding.[1]
Global warming is also heating up sea surface
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Extreme heat was the deadliest weather in 2018 with 108 lives lost, according to statistics recently released by NOAA.
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South Africa’s major cities are “ill-prepared” to deal with harsh weather consequences as a result of them not being able to keep up with sustainable urbanisation – and this is evidenced by the death toll and destruction after the past few days’ rainfall in various centres around the country, acc
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Alaska is in the midst of one of the warmest springs the state has ever experienced — a transformation that has disrupted livelihoods and cost lives.
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First among them, there's no longer any question that rising temperatures and increasingly chaotic weather are the work of humanity. There's a 99.9999% chance that humans are the cause of global warming, a February study reported.
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Tornadoes in the South, floods and snow in the Midwest, crazy heat in Alaska. What's going on with the extreme weather this year?
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Two Alaskan rivers have smashed records for their earliest spring ice breakup in about 100 years of records after recent mild and record-breaking temperatures.
