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List of notable records broken since December 25Thursday, December 28
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Are we safe to ignore global warming because it’s cold outside? In a tweet published on December 28, President Donald Trump wrote this:
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Villagers in South River, a palm-fringed coastal community in the low-lying South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, are used to battling cyclones, floods and tsunamis but are now facing a new threat - rising seas.
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As the Christmas holiday nears, parts of the Midwest are nearing a record-long wait for the season's first snow.Des Moines, Iowa, hasn't seen measurable snow – at least 0.1 inch – since March 21, the day after spring officially arrived.
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The tallest peaks of North America are getting twice as much snow since the mid-1800s—and it’s due to warmer oceans hundreds of miles away.
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Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University report that the more sensitive a bird species is to warm temperatures during its breeding season, the more likely it is to benefit from being near an old-growth forest (also known as a primary forest).
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The athletes' half-hour commute in the Swiss Alps — up two gondolas, then through a tunnel in the world's highest underground train to a glacier at 11,000 feet — served up daily grim reminders that global warming is threatening their line of work.
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November 2017 was Earth's fifth warmest November since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on Monday.
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As firefighters continue to battle California’s devastating Thomas Fire — now the fourth-largest in state history — a group of scientists presented new results suggesting that air pollution from such massive blazes may be one of their deadliest consequences.
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Our second La Niña year in a row is in full swing now, and is forecast to last through the winter. In November, the average surface water temperature in the Niño3.4 region of the central Pacific Ocean was about 1.0°C cooler than the long-term average.
