Rain Brings Joy to Suffering Australia
Drought-breaking storms dumped desperately needed rain on some bushfire-ravaged parts of eastern Australia on Friday, giving joy to many farmers who faced losing precious livestock and crops.
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Weather
Persistent Pacific Marine Heatwave Killed 1 Million Seabirds
A severe and long-lasting marine heatwave known as “the blob” is to blame for the mass death of the common murres, totaling nearly 1 million seabirds, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Alaska Man Rescued Weeks After Remote Cabin Burned Down
Weeks after an Alaska man’s remote cabin burned down, he was rescued by Alaska State Troopers who found him by a makeshift shelter with an SOS signal stamped in the snow.
Read moreClean Water
California River Watch sued the City of Mount Shasta in federal court, claiming its inadequate sewer system overflows during wet weather and dumps raw sewage into gutters, canals and storm drains connected to the Sacramento River and Lake Siskiyou.
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Australia at Last Makes Some Gains Against Wildfires
Crews battling Australia’s wildfires said Sunday that they have been able to turn from defense to offense for the first time in weeks thanks to a break in the weather.
Read moreStorms Sweep Southern US, Midwest as Death Toll Rises to 11
Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered large swaths of the country.
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Alaska Sees Warmest Year on Record in 2019, While US Sees Second Wettest
Alaska experienced its warmest year on record in 2019, while months of flooding and severe storms in the northern and central Great Plains states spurred record precipitation levels according to federal climatologists.
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Storms Bring Relief and More Danger to Australia
Thunderstorms and showers brought some relief for firefighters battling deadly wildfires across Australia’s drought-parched east coast on Wednesday, but also raised concerns that lightning will spark more fires before dangerous hot and windy conditions return.
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Australian Fire Damage Rises to Half a Billion
Bolstered by cooler weather and desperately needed rain, exhausted firefighters in Australia raced to shore up defenses against deadly wildfires before the blazes flare again this week, when scorching temperatures are expected to return.
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Ocean Cycles Thought to Drive Weather May Be a Myth
For decades, meteorologists and other scientists have attributed worldwide shifts in rain, hurricanes, fish breeding and coastal sea temperatures to a pair of climate cycles that ebb and flow on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – which a study published Friday says may be a fluke.
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Powerful Storm Wreaks Havoc in Upper Midwest
A fierce winter storm that brought blizzards to parts of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota shut down interstates, led to hundreds of vehicle crashes and brought a metropolitan area of more than 200,000 people to a standstill Monday.
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Winter-Hit Syrians Turn to Pistachio Shells for Heat
Abu Walid emptied a container of pistachio shells into the top of a heater in his living room in violence-plagued northwest Syria, where millions are bracing for a harsh winter.
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Wisconsin Town Reconsiders Ban on Snowball Fights
Despite the recent unseasonable warmth in the area, a small central Wisconsin city has winter weather on its mind as the city council is poised to toss a ban on snowballs as thrown projectiles.
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After Drought, Floods Compound Somalia’s Year of Climate Misery
The arid Horn of Africa country has always been hostage to climate extremes. Rain is erratic, and drought a feature of life. But catastrophic weather events are occurring in Somalia with ever-greater fury and frequency, trapping millions in a near-constant cycle of crisis.
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Army Corps Found Liable for Upstream Houston Floods
The government is liable for flooding Houston homes with Hurricane Harvey runoff that backed up behind two dams, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, rejecting claims the risk was clearly laid out in public documents years before the storm hit.
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Tornadoes Kill at Least Three in the South
Three people were confirmed dead and a dozen more injured as a powerful storm front packing tornadoes smashed into buildings, downed trees and left a trail of destruction around the Deep South on Monday.
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Earth Just Had Second Hottest November on Record
Last month Earth saw the second warmest November since scientists began tracking findings 140 years ago, according to a report released Monday by NOAA.
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Good Riddance: Giant Storm Slams East in Last Gasp
A seemingly endless winter storm that hindered travel across most of the nation over the long holiday weekend delivered a last wallop as it swooped through the Northeast on Monday, dumping heavy snow, shuttering hundreds of schools and bedeviling commuters.
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Powerful Typhoon Kammuri Batters the Philippines
A powerful typhoon was blowing across the Philippines on Tuesday after slamming ashore overnight in an eastern province, damaging houses and an airport and knocking out power as tens of thousands of people fled for safer ground.
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Hot Weather Linked to Rise in Early Childbirth
Hot weather can cause a spike in the number of babies being born early, a phenomenon that may harm infant health and is likely to get worse as temperatures climb due to climate change, scientists said Monday.
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