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Melbourne floods: More rain in 2 hours than September and October combined, Australia

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A slow-moving storm system dumped heavy rain over parts of southeastern Australia on November 6, 2018, causing power outages and traffic chaos. The city's northwestern suburbs suffered worst of the storm.
11/06/2018

Is Warming Bringing a Wave of New Diseases to Arctic Wildlife?

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During the last week of September, Inuit residents in the community of Arviat on the northwest coast of Hudson Bay were surprised to see a mysterious whale following a small boat heading back to the village.
Ed Struzik
11/06/2018

Sighting of sperm whales in Arctic a sign of changing ecosystem, say scientists

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A rare sighting of sperm whales in the Canadian Arctic is the latest sign of a quickly changing ecosystem, say scientists, as a growing number of species expand their range into warming Arctic waters.
Leyland Cecco
11/05/2018

Venice Flooding Is Worst in a Decade; Severe Weather in Italy Kills at Least 9

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Violent thunderstorms, small tornadoes that blew roofs off homes, and winds equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane lashed Italy from Piedmont to Sicily early this week, leaving at least nine people dead, many injured, and firefighters and other rescue workers scrambling to respond to emergency call
10/30/2018

Typhoon Yutu Slams into Northern Philippines, Killing a Child

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Typhoon Yutu battered the northern Philippines on Tuesday, leaving a 5-year-old child dead and three others missing. 
10/30/2018

'We've never seen this': massive Canadian glaciers shrinking rapidly

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Scientists in Canada have warned that massive glaciers in the Yukon territory are shrinking even faster than would be expected from a warming climate – and bringing dramatic changes to the region.
Leyland Cecco
10/30/2018

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
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