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The Latest: Death toll in Greek floods rises to at least 9

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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.
11/15/2017

Lyme Disease Is Slowly Spreading Across the US East Coast

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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.
Kristen V. Brown
11/13/2017

As wild weather brings more migration, Pacific islands look for ways to cope

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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.
Laurie Goering
11/13/2017

Climate Change and Water Woes Drove ISIS Recruiting in Iraq

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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.
Peter Schwartzstein
11/14/2017

Hope is the last thing we have lost: New report of the World Meteorological Organization

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On November 6, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published an advance of their report “State of the world climate 2017".
Gerardo Honty
11/13/2017

Dozens of records fall as cold grips Northeast, Midwest for one more day

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Boston and New York set back-to-back daily record lows on Friday and Saturday.
Daniel Manzo
11/12/2017

Bangladesh's Rising Seas, Erosion Robs Climate Change Refugees of Everything, Again and Again

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According to Deutsche Welle, some 26,000 families in Bangladesh lose their homes and way of life to climate-driven erosion every year. 
Pam Wright
11/10/2017

New Zealand's winter shorter by a month over 100 years

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New Zealand’s winter has gotten shorter by a month over the last 100 years, meaning “true winter” weather with very low temperatures, frosts and snow starts significantly later in the year and ends earlier.
Eleanor Ainge Roy
11/09/2017

The Zombie Diseases of Climate Change

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From the air, the coast of Greenland appears vast and tranquil. Hundreds of fjords, their surfaces a mirror of blue sky and cloud bottoms, divide the territory. In the gaps between them, the terrain folds over itself, hill over hill, descending into obsidian lakes.
Robinson Meyer
11/06/2017

2017 set to be one of top three hottest years on record

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2017 is set to be one of the hottest three years on record, provisional data suggests, confirming yet again a warming trend that scientists say bears the fingerprints of human actions.
Fiona Harvey
11/06/2017
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