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Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, flash fires, droughts: all of them tell us one thing – we need to rethink how we live...
Too much rain: China's floods roil hydropower, corn supplies.
Severe flooding across southern China has forced the world's largest power plant to slash capacity on Tuesday, delayed grain on barges and damaged...
After France and Portugal, Spain battles forest fire.
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After France and Portugal, Spain was battling a blaze Saturday that has ravaged bone dry pine forests and is still...
In Bangladesh, a flood and an efficient response.
Op-Ed ContributorBy K. ANIS AHMEDSeptember 1, 2017DHAKA, Bangladesh — After two weeks of flooding, about half of Bangladesh is under water, 140 people have been killed, tens...
Florida’s migrant farm workers struggle after hurricane damaged homes, crops.
Hurricane Irma knocked millions of dollars worth of oranges and grapefruits to the ground. Its high winds mowed down thousands of acres of sugarcane,...
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Researchers in Antarctica have discovered rapidly growing banks of mosses on the ice continent's northern peninsula, providing striking evidence of climate change in the...
Puerto Ricans pump drinking water from hazardous-waste: report.
Some Puerto Rico residents are turning to a hazardous waste site for drinking water as the island continues to reel from Hurricane Maria.
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Picturing how many Great Salt Lakes Harvey dropped onto Texas.
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Warm waters off West Coast has lingering effects for salmon.
The mass of warm water known as "the blob" that heated up the North Pacific Ocean has dissipated, but scientists are still seeing the...
Hurricane Maria brings destruction, heavy floods to Puerto Rico.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Hurricane Maria thrashed parts of the Dominican Republic with heavy rain and high winds as it passed near...
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