International efforts to curb ozone-depleting chemicals have paused and potentially reversed shifting jet stream winds that affect storm patterns, ocean temperatures and Antarctic sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere, scientists found in a study released Wednesday.
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As the world struggles to contain a pandemic virus, climate scientists on Friday reminded humanity of another imminent crisis facing the planet – climate change – and ranked last month as the second-hottest February in 141 years.
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A Tennessee judge ruled Tuesday afternoon that some polling places in Davidson County will stay open an extra three hours because of a tornado that caused extensive damage and claimed lives in downtown Nashville.
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A series of tornadoes running through Tennessee early Tuesday morning killed at least 19 people and left swaths of destruction across the central part of the state.
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Amid an abnormally dry winter and the likelihood of a February with no measurable rain across a wide swath of Northern California for the first time in recorded history, drought conditions have spread across about a quarter of the Golden State.
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A multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against Jakarta’s governor over deadly New Year flooding was sidelined Tuesday due to more floods.
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Scientists have long explored the environmental possibilities of cloud seeding – injecting special chemicals into the atmosphere to create a manmade snowfall. Now they know how well it works.
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Forecasters expected more heavy rains in parts of the flood-ravaged South on Tuesday, prolonging the misery for worried people who still can’t get back to their homes.
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Among a list of the most extreme weather events in the last decade, Hurricane Harvey – which ravaged Texas and Louisiana in 2017 – stood out as the most severe from the group, according to a study released Tuesday.
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Storm Dennis hammered Britain on Sunday, dumping a month’s worth of rain in just 48 hours on parts of South Wales, which bore the brunt of the country’s second severe storm in a week.
Read moreDays of heavy rain have created a dilemma for authorities managing dams along swollen rivers in Mississippi and Tennessee. The water has to be released eventually, worsening the flooding for people living downstream.
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Students stayed home from school Thursday and several businesses were closed in parts of the upper Midwest as arctic air pushed wind chill readings to dangerously low temperatures.
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California slipped into drought once again as dry skies prevailed throughout the back half of January and the first half of February.
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A gust of 209 mph recorded atop a California peak over the weekend was likely not a new state wind record but a mistake resulting from a faulty sensor, meteorologists said Monday.
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Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia’s weather an almost Biblical feel this year. The good news is that a recent deluge in eastern parts of the country has drenched deadly fires and helped ease a crippling drought.
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Storm Ciara caused travel chaos on Monday, severely disrupting commutes and grounding hundreds of flights as swaths of Europe were left without power by winds of up to 110 miles per hour and torrential rain that caused flash flooding and cancellation of sports competitions.
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The U.N. weather agency said Friday that an Argentine research base on the northern tip of Antarctica is reporting a temperature that, if confirmed, could be a record high for the icy continent.
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More than 260,000 homes and businesses in the southeastern United States were without power early Friday after a powerful storm raked the region. At least five people were killed.
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The contiguous United States is in the midst of the warmest winter on record, according to data published by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday – a sobering picture that adds more evidence to the case for global warming.
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An unusually heavy winter storm dumped inches of snow across parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday, closing schools and creating treacherous travel conditions across the region.
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