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Mountain birds on "escalator to extinction" as planet warms

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A meticulous re-creation of a three decade-old study of birds on a mountainside in Peru has given scientists a rare chance to prove how the changing climate is pushing species out of the places they are best adapted to.
Christina Larson
10/29/2018

Temperatures significantly rise on China's Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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Temperatures in the northeastern part of China's vast Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, often dubbed the Roof of the World, have risen more than three times faster than the global average, Chinese data shows.
Ryan Woo
10/27/2018

Extreme Category 5 typhoon, the worst U.S. storm since 1935, leaves Northern Mariana Islands devastated

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Super Typhoon Yutu rampaged through the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on Thursday, leaving behind storm damage that residents are calling the worst they have ever experienced.
Allyson Chiu , Chris Mooney and Juliet Eilperin
10/25/2018

Tara, Vicente and Willa Have Made 2018 the Most Active Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season on Record

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The 2018 Eastern Pacific hurricane season is the most active on record, according to one metric used to track hurricane activity, boosted by what was once Tropical Storm Tara and now tropical storms Vicente and Willa.
Jonathan Erdman and Brian Donegan
10/20/2018

An Incurable Fungal Disease Is Spreading In The Western US, And Climate Change Could Make It Worse

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Valley fever, also called coccidioidomycosis, is caused by a fungus commonly found in hot and dry regions of the southwestern US, particularly California and Arizona.
Stephanie K. Baer
10/17/2018

Tornadoes are spinning up farther east in US, study finds

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Over the past few decades tornadoes have been shifting — decreasing in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas but spinning up more in states along the Mississippi River and farther east, a new study shows. Scientists aren’t quite certain why.
Seth Borenstein
10/17/2018

Arctic ice sets speed limit for major ocean current

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The Beaufort Gyre is an enormous, 600-mile-wide pool of swirling cold, fresh water in the Arctic Ocean, just north of Alaska and Canada. In the winter, this current is covered by a thick cap of ice.
Jennifer Chu
10/17/2018

Hurricane Michael 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

From London to Shanghai, world's sinking cities face devastating floods

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London, Jakarta, Shanghai and Houston and other global cities that are already sinking will become increasingly vulnerable to storms and flooding as a result of global warming, campaigners have warned ahead of a landmark new report on climate science.
Fiona Harvey
10/04/2018

A massive, historic high-pressure zone is bringing freakishly nice weather to Alaska

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Alaska is experiencing some of the sunniest, warmest and driest early fall weather it has ever seen. In Anchorage, for example, temperatures have remained above normal for 32 straight days, and it’s hardly rained....
Jason Samenow
10/02/2018
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