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‘Unprecedented’ Floods in Australia Force Hundreds to Evacuate

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After weeks of unrelenting heat and bushfires across the continent, torrential rain and flooding in northern Australia have forced hundreds of residents to evacuate their homes in what weather officials describe as an “unprecedented” event.
Livia Albeck-Ripka
02/04/2019

On the Water-Starved Colorado River, Drought Is the New Normal

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As the flow of the Colorado diminishes, more water users will be forced to turn to groundwater pumping.The news on that front, though, is also problematic.
Jim Robbins
01/22/2019

Climate stress drove wave of Arab Spring refugees - researchers

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Severe droughts made more likely by global warming worsened conflict in Arab Spring countries early this decade, forcing people to flee, researchers said on Wednesday, publishing evidence they said proved the connection for the first time.
Megan Rowling
01/23/2019

World’s permafrost gets warmer; Siberia rises the most

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Scientists say the world’s permafrost is getting warmer, with temperatures increasing by an average of 0.3 degrees Celsius (0.54 Fahrenheit) over a decade.
01/16/2019

Polar Vortex Split and Eastern US Arctic Invasion January 2019

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Climate science at a glance Climate change disrupts regional weather patterns and can bring cold further south while warm air can travel further north.

Hottest Years for U.S. Cities

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We calculated the average annual temperatures at 244 individual U.S. stations throughout their periods of record, highlighted the decade in which each record hot year was established, and showed the breakdown of each station’s records by decade.
01/09/2019

When the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers

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Mountaineering in today’s climate-disrupted world is a vastly different endeavour from what it used to be. Glaciers are vanishing before our eyes, having shrunk to the lowest levels ever recorded, and are now melting faster than ever.
Dahr Jamail
01/08/2019

US Energy-Related Emissions Spike in 2018, Per Rhodium Group

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Energy-related emissions increased last year at a rate the U.S. hasn’t experienced since 2010, according to an analysis Rhodium Group released Tuesday.
Emma Foehringer Merchant
01/08/2019

Climate change ravages Turner’s majestic glaciers

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A Royal Academician has followed in the footsteps of JMW Turner and John Ruskin to capture in photographs the breathtaking sites in the French Alps that 19th-century artists caught so strikingly.
Dalya Alberge
01/06/2019

Antarctic ice melts to January record low

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The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has melted to a record low for January, scientists announced this week.
Doyle Rice
01/04/2019
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