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As typhoons wreak greater havoc, what is the link to climate change?

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It has been a wild and wet 2017. As Typhoon Hato battered Hong Kong and Macau in August, grounding flights and killing 10 people, hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria unleashed hell on the Americas, causing hundreds of deaths....
Ernest Kao
10/29/2017

Extreme heat may lead to record number of home runs World Series

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Record heat may partly be to blame for the bizarre, historic, and exciting second game of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros on Wednesday night. 
Andrew Freedman
10/26/2017

Two California Locations Tied the U.S. Record for the Hottest Temperature So Late in the Year Tuesday

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Southern California endured a brutal autumn heat wave earlier this week, which sent temperatures into the triple digits in a number of locations.
Brian Donegan
10/25/2017

Rising Seas Are Flooding Virginia’s Naval Base, and There’s No Plan to Fix It

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The one-story brick firehouse at Naval Station Norfolk sits pinched between a tidal inlet and Willoughby Bay. The station houses the first responders to any emergency at the neighboring airfield. Yet when a big storm hits or the tides surge, the land surrounding it floods.
Nicholas Kusnetz
10/25/2017

Utahns are feeling more extreme summer heat due to climate change, study says

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Most Americans — and Utahns — face more days of extreme heat each summer than they did a few decades ago, according to a study that highlights the health effects of that trend.
Luke Ramseth
10/25/2017

How Climate Change Is Playing Havoc With Olive Oil (and Farmers)

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It was in June, the time of year when the first olives normally burst from their blossoms in the mild warmth of early summer, when Irene Guidobaldi walked through her groves in blistering heat and watched in horror as the flowers on her trees began to wither and fall.
Somini Sengupta
10/24/2017

Global wine production plummets due to 'extreme weather'

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Global wine production is set to fall this year to its lowest level in more than half a century after “extreme weather events” caused severe damage to vineyards in western Europe, the world's largest wine-growing area....
Rory Mulholland
10/24/2017

Game 1 in Los Angeles Tuesday Was the Hottest World Series Game on Record

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Game 1 of the 2017 World Series in Los Angeles on Tuesday was the hottest World Series game on record, and that heat should carry over into game 2, as well.
Jonathan Erdman
10/24/2017

Record-Melting Fall Heat Wave Bakes Southern California

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It’s not every October 23 or 24 that millions of Americans are swathed in temperatures above 100°F. This week has done just that, bringing some of the toastiest weather ever observed in the United States during late October, and more pre-Halloween heat is on the way.
Bob Henson
10/24/2017

Typhoon "Lan" slams into Japan, leaves at least 4 dead, extensive flooding

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Typhoon "Lan" made landfall at Shizuoka Prefecture, some 175 km (110 miles) southwest of Tokyo at 18:00 UTC on Sunday, October 22, 2017 (03:00 JST, October 23), side-sweeping the capital, bringing heavy rain and wind gusts up to 198 km/h (123 mph).
10/23/2017
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