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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.
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Permafrost is a layer of frozen soil that covers 25 percent of the Northern Hemisphere. It acts like a giant freezer, keeping microbes, carbon, and soil locked in place....
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Since it was founded in the 1950s, the village of Newtok has lost nearly a mile of coastline. The reason for that isn’t under dispute: climate change has caused the permafrost under the village to melt, allowing the surrounding water to eat away at the shore.
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Researchers at the University of Tennessee released a preliminary evaluation of the emotional and economic crisis caused by the Gatlinburg wildfires.
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Greek officials said six people remain missing a day after flooding swamped an area of western Athens, killing 15 people.
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In 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture updated the Wisconsin plant hardiness zone map. Outside of a coterie of gardeners and growers who use the map to determine what plants will survive in a given climate, the change was not widely noticed.
