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Key Greenland glacier growing again after shrinking for years

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A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds.
03/25/2019

Why climate scientists predict even bigger hurricanes are coming to our coasts

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Cyclones, also known as hurricanes or typhoons, are intense wind storms that can take thousands of lives and cause billions of dollars in damage. They generate large ocean waves and raise water levels by creating a storm surge.
Ryan Mulligan
03/26/2019

Cyclone Idai lays bare the fundamental injustice of climate change

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A humanitarian catastrophe is underway in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe as the full scale of devastation from Cyclone Idai becomes more clear.
Eric Holthaus
03/19/2019

Amid 19-Year Drought, States Sign Deal to Conserve Colorado River Water

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The water is saved, for now.Seven Western states have agreed on a plan to manage the Colorado River amid a 19-year drought, voluntarily cutting their water use to prevent the federal government from imposing a mandatory squeeze on the supply.
John Schwartz
03/19/2019

Great Plains Floods March 2019

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Climate science at a glance The Great Plains floods reflect the classic signals of climate change. The floods were driven in large part by heavy rainfall and unusually warm temperatures driving rapid snow melt.

'Almost Everything Is Destroyed': Cyclone Idai Leaves Mozambique's Fourth-Largest City in Ruins

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On March 15, a rare, giant cyclone made landfall in Mozambique before making its way west to Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Yessenia Funes
03/19/2019

AP finds hot records falling twice as often as cold ones

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Over the past 20 years, Americans have been twice as likely to sweat through record-breaking heat rather than shiver through record-setting cold, a new Associated Press data analysis shows.
Seth Borenstein and Nicky Forster
03/19/2019

Blistering heat shatters records across Australia

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It may be autumn, but Mother Nature hasn't received the memo as temperature records continue to fall across Australia.The far-reaching heat wave has been felt in parts of four Australian states in recent days and resulted in numerous temperature records being set....
03/12/2019

With ocean heat wave came 37 species never seen this far north

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An extended ocean heat wave that spurred a series of ecological anomalies off the Northern California coast — including toxic algae, mass sea lion strandings and the collapse of the bull kelp forest — also promoted the northward migration of an unprecedented number of southern, warm-water species
Mary Callahan
03/12/2019

''Bomb cyclone' batters more than 25 US states

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A vast, window-rattling late winter "bomb cyclone" has brought blizzards, high winds, rain and the threat of tornadoes to more than US 25 states, stretching from the northern Rocky Mountains to Texas and beyond.
03/13/2019
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