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An hour’s drive from Las Vegas stands America’s Hoover Dam, a commanding barrier of concrete holding back the trillions of gallons of Colorado River water held inside Lake Mead.
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Rainfall increased by over 50 percent in the heaviest precipitating parts of the Florence due to human interference in the cl
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School may have just started, but for hundreds of students in the region around the nation’s capital, class is already getting out early. In the Washington, D.C.
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Dozens of schools across New Jersey will dismiss students early Thursday due to extreme heat.
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Sea surface temperatures in the vast Gulf of Maine hit a near-record high of 68.93 degrees Fahrenheit on Aug. 8, part of what scientists called a month-long “marine heat wave” in the normally chilly waters that are home to everything from lobsters to whales.
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Prolonged heat and dryness during the summer of 2018 has turned formerly green fields into dusty, dying patches of soil all across Europe, leading to drought across many countries....
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Meteorological summer has been one of extremes in the U.S. Overall, the East has been wet while the West has baked in the heat. These types of extremes, which are set up by a consistent jet stream pattern, are amplified by a warming climate.
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Boston tied its second warmest low temperature for any calendar day on Wednesday morning by only dipping to 81 degrees, then rose to at least 98 degrees during the afternoon – a record high for the day.
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Climate change is doing "widespread and consequential" harm to animals and plants, which are struggling to adapt to new conditions, according to a major report released Monday.
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The shrubs probably responded first. In the 19th century, alder and flowering willows in the Alaskan Arctic stood no taller than a small child—just a little over three feet.
