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Increasing Heat Is Driving Off Clouds That Dampen California Wildfires

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Sunny California may be getting too sunny.
Kevin Krajick
05/30/2018

May shaping up as USA's hottest on record, breaking mark set during 1934 Dust Bowl

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The USA is sweltering through what will likely be its hottest May on record, according to a preliminary analysis of weather data.National Weather Service meteorologist Victor Murphy said May 2018 should break the record set in May 1934 during the Dust Bowl. 
Doyle Rice
05/30/2018

Ellicott City Floods May 2018

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Climate science at a glance There is a global trend in stronger and more frequent heavy precipitation events, and it has been firmly attributed to climate change.[1]

In a Warming West, the Rio Grande Is Drying Up

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The Rio Grande is a classic “feast or famine” river, with a dry year or two typically followed by a couple of wet years that allow for recovery.
Henry Fountain
05/24/2018

Drought on tap to intensify over US Southwest

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Rivers are drying up, popular mountain recreation spots are closing and water restrictions are in full swing as a persistent drought intensifies its grip on pockets of the American Southwest....
Susan Montoya Bryan
05/23/2018

Pakistan Heat Wave Kills at Least 65, Welfare Group Says

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At least 65 people died amid blistering temperatures and widespread power outages in Karachi, Pakistan, a welfare organization said Tuesday....
05/23/2018

Bering Sea ice is "at record low levels for this time of year"

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Arctic sea ice is low, with the Bering Sea’s ice extent “the lowest recorded since at least 1979,” according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). This reflects a larger overall trend: in April, Arctic sea ice covered an area 378,400 square miles below the 1981 to 2010 average.
Lacy Cooke
05/21/2018

April 2018 Was Earth's 400th Consecutive Warmer-Than-Average Month and the Third Warmest April on Record

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April 2018 was the third warmest April on record, according to four independent analyses.It was also the 400th month in a row the planet has had above-average temperatures....
Chris Dolce
05/17/2018

Wildfires Rage in Russia's Far East, Siberia, Torching Massive Swaths of Land

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A catastrophic wildfire season has persisted for weeks in Siberia and Russia's Far East, during which hundreds of thousands of acres have been destroyed, and the flames have even invaded some inhabited areas...
Sean Breslin
05/16/2018

Alaska's iceberg nursery failing, NOAA warns

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The iceberg nursery near Alaska is failing as warming temperatures have made it harder to churn out sea ice year after year, the federal government warned Wednesday.
John Siciliano
05/09/2018
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