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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.
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Flash floods on the Greek capital’s western outskirts have converted roads into raging torrents of mud and debris . . . inundating homes and businesses.
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Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, but it’s also mostly confined to a small swath of the country running down the eastern seaboard to the Mid Atlantic and along the Great Lakes.
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When Cyclone Winston smashed into Fiji last year, killing 44 people and destroying more than a dozen villages, people who found themselves without homes got on boats.
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It was a few weeks after the rains failed in the winter of 2009 that residents of Shirqat first noticed the strange bearded men.
