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Hundreds of glaciers in Canada’s high Arctic are shrinking and many are at risk of disappearing completely, an unprecedented inventory of glaciers in the country’s northernmost island has revealed.
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At least 11 wildfires are raging inside the Arctic Circle as the hot, dry summer turns an abnormally wide area of Europe into a tinderbox.
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Climate science at a glance
The increasing frequency and intensity of heat waves is among the most obvious and well-documented effects of climate change.[1]
An attribution study led by Stanford’s Noah Diffenbaugh
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July kicked off with searingly hot temperatures for most Americans this year.
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An estimated 70 people died as the result of sweltering temperatures that hit Canada's Quebec province last week, according to health officials.The Ministry of Health said that 34 of the deaths occurred in the city of Montreal.
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Parts of southwestern Japan had as much as 3 inches per hour of rain, the highest in decades, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. By Monday, rain warnings have been lifted.Water has reached as high as 16 feet in the hardest-hit areas.
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Climate science at a glance
The trend of increasingly heavy downpours seen around the world is one of the clearest signals of climate change on a warming planet.
Increasingly heavy precipitation is a global trend firmly linked to global warming driven by carbon pollutio
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Typhoon Maria, while expected to weaken somewhat from its current intensity, is headed for a strike on Japan's southwesternmost islands, Taiwan and eastern China as a still-formidable typhoon Tuesday and Wednesday.
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At least 100 people are thought to have died after record rainfall caused flooding and landslides in western Japan, a government spokesman says.Dozens more are reported to be missing and electricity supplies have been hit.
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From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.
