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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

California snowpack below average in year’s first survey – ‘anything is possible’ for water supply

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Despite a flurry of recent winter storms, the California Department of Water Resources’ first snow survey of the year came up short of average Thursday.
Vincent Moleski
01/03/2019

Typhoon Yutu October 2018

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Climate science at a glanceSea level rise, combined with coastal storms, has increased the risk of erosion, storm-surge damage, and flooding for coastal communities.Global warming is increasing water vapor in the air, which in turn is fueling extreme rainfall, increasing th

Deadly floods hit Indonesia, more than 1,400 homes flooded

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At least 4 people have been killed over the past 4 days in Indonesian provinces of West Sumatra and West Java after heavy rain caused severe flooding and landslides.
11/06/2018

UK heatwaves lasting twice as long as 50 years ago – Met Office

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Heatwaves in the UK are lasting twice as long as they did 50 years ago, ice days are disappearing and tropical nights are starting to occur as far north as Middlesbrough, according to a Met Office report.
Jonathan Watts
11/01/2018
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