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In the Outer Banks, Officials and Property Owners Battle to Keep the Ocean at Bay

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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.
Nicholas Kusnetz
11/28/2017

In Peru’s Deserts, Melting Glaciers Are a Godsend (Until They’re Gone)

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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.
Nicholas Casey
11/26/2017

A poison in our island

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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.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/mark-willacy/166888
11/26/2017

Species may appear deceptively resilient to climate change

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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.
11/22/2017

Venezuela Poised to Become the First Country to Lose All of Its Glaciers to Climate Change

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Venezuela is poised to become the first country in modern times to lose all of its glaciers.
Pam Wright
11/21/2017

Southern California Broils Under Thanksgiving Holiday Heat Wave

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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.
11/22/2017

Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing

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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.
Henry Fountain
08/23/2017

How have drought, climate change impacted beloved giant sequoias? New study finds out

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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.
Brianna Calix
11/20/2017

As climate change threatens islands, Kiribati's president plans development

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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.
11/20/2017

15 trampled to death in stampede for flour in drought-stricken Morocco

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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.
Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
11/19/2017
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