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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.
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Arizona water officials committed Thursday to reach a multi-state plan by the end of the year to stave off Colorado River water shortages, or at least lessen the impact.
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Last year was the third hottest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
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Climate signals #1 and #2: Atmospheric moisture increase and extreme precipitation Increase
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ou may think it’s been hot where you are, but the coastal city of Quriyat (Qurayyat) in the Middle Eastern nation of Oman established a singularly unenviable heat mark on Tuesday: a 24-hour low temperature of 42.6°C (108.7°F), including the period from local midnight to midnight.
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The bucolic countryside surrounding Manchester has been turned into a fiery inferno. The Saddleworth Moor fire erupted on Sunday night as hot, dry weather fanned the flames across the fields and peatlands.
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Scientists studying one of the fastest-warming regions of the global ocean say changes in this region are so sudden and vast that in effect, it will soon be another limb of the Atlantic Ocean, rather than a characteristically icy Arctic sea.
