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Across the Arctic, lakes are leaking dangerous greenhouse gases. And one lake is behaving very strangely

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Katey Walter Anthony has studied some 300 lakes across the tundras of the Arctic. But sitting on the mucky shore of her latest discovery, the Arctic expert said she’d never seen a lake like this one.
Chris Mooney
09/22/2018

National parks are getting hotter and drier. What’s the outlook for 2100?

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America’s national parks are warming up and drying out faster than other U.S. landscapes, threatening iconic ecosystems from the Everglades in Florida to Joshua Tree in California to Denali in Alaska.
Stuart Leavenworth
09/24/2018

Heat wave in Japan sends record 30,000 people to hospital in August

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More than 30,000 people suffering heat stroke or heat exhaustion were taken to hospitals across Japan in August, topping the previous record for the month in 2010, the government said Thursday.
Mainichi Japan
09/21/2018

Apple farmers in Wisconsin worry about changing climate

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A spate of hot, wet weather this summer and over the past few growing seasons has left Wisconsin apple farmers concerned about their futures.
09/21/2018

It's not the heat; it's the humidity

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We live in a warming world. And we often characterize that warming through metrics of temperature. But that’s only a sliver of the story. Another sliver, and perhaps a more consequential one, of the story is the connected increase in atmospheric moisture.
Deke Arndt
09/20/2018

Massive landslide buries 24 homes in Cebu, leaving more than 60 dead and missing, Philippines

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A large landslide buried between 20 and 24 homes near a limestone quarry site on the fringes of Naga City of Cebu Province in the central Philippines early September 20, 2018.
09/20/2018

'Catastrophic' floods rising on Amazon River, say scientists

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Severe flooding on the Amazon has increased amid changing weather patterns, and is harming the health and incomes of people living along the world's biggest river, scientists said.
09/19/2018

Denver extends heat wave record for September with ninth consecutive 90-degree day

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Denver’s hot weather keeps on sizzling, extending a record on Tuesday for consecutive 90-degree days in September.
Kieran Nicholson
09/18/2018

How is September climate changing in the U.S.?

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Climate scientists are often asked how global warming can be real if every spot on Earth isn’t warming in every season. The simple answer is just math. It doesn’t have to be warming everywhere: the warming just has to overpower the cooling.
Rebecca Lindsey
09/11/2018

How is September climate changing in the U.S.?

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Climate scientists are often asked how global warming can be real if every spot on Earth isn’t warming in every season. The simple answer is just math. It doesn’t have to be warming everywhere: the warming just has to overpower the cooling.
Rebecca Lindsey
09/11/2018
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