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This hurricane season, Lance Goldner harbored an unusual wish: that his beach house on North Carolina's scenic Outer Banks would collapse in a storm.
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The desert blooms now. Blueberries grow to the size of Ping-Pong balls in nothing but sand. Asparagus fields cross dunes, disappearing over the horizon.
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In the late 1970s, Runit Island, on the remote Enewetak Atoll, was the scene of the largest nuclear clean-up in United States history.
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Nature itself can be the best defense against climate change for many species—at least in the short term—according to a study published in the journal Ecology Letters from the University of California, Davis.
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Venezuela is poised to become the first country in modern times to lose all of its glaciers.
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A mini heat wave is set to peak Wednesday over Southern California, with temperatures at about 20 degrees above normal. On Thanksgiving, temperatures will be about 20-25 degrees higher than the average, and could break a 114-year record for the holiday.
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[T]o the scientists from Woods Hole Research Center who have come [to Alaska] to study the effects of climate change, the most urgent is the fate of permafrost, the always-frozen ground that underlies much of the state.
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The towering giant sequoias in the Sierra Nevada struggled to endure the recent drought as temperatures continued to inch higher and higher each year, a new study has found.
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The low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati is one of the parts of the world most threatened by climate change and rising sea levels.
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They had traveled for miles to get to a remote village in drought-devastated Morocco for one reason: A local aid group was handing out flour.
