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Global Warming Is Destabilizing Mountain Slopes, Creating Landslide Risks

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It's not just the atmosphere and the oceans that are heating up. An ever-denser blanket of greenhouse gases is also sending warmer air and water deeper into the planet's rocky bones.
09/28/2018

Arctic ice hit one of its lowest points on record, but there’s another grim statistic

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Sea ice in the Arctic has just about melted to its lowest point of 2018, and this reinforces a trend of dwindling ice atop the globe — where the climate is warming two to three times faster than the rest of the planet.
Mark Kaufman
09/26/2018

Higher average temperatures linked to chikungunya risk in India

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The risk of transmission of chikungunya in India increases with a steady spike in average temperatures in the south Asian nation, a climate-based modeling study has said.
Sahana Ghosh
09/27/2018

New Zealand waters seeing fastest rate of acidic change in 25 million years

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New Zealand's waters are becoming more acidic as they continue to absorb about a quarter of our carbon dioxide emissions. 
Chloe Ranford
09/27/2018

Saving Scotland’s Heritage From the Rising Seas

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Off the north coast of Scotland, Orkney’s soft green landscapes hold a trove of things from everyday life before history was written.
Jim Dwyer
09/25/2018

Liua is South Pacific's first cyclone in September for 70 years

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Cyclone Liua is the first cyclone to form in the south-west Pacific in the month of September for nearly 70 years.Liua is over the Solomons' Makira Island and is forecast to develop into a category two on the scale of one to five.
09/27/2018

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
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