Drought-warning tool to help Central American farmers.
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Fires are torching Montana, and the money is running out.
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Why we are naively optimistic about climate change.
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There is comfort in distance, especially when the distance is in time.
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Blistering heat wave threatens Seattle, where only a third have air-conditioning.
By MAGGIE ASTORAugust 1, 2017Much of the country is used to occasional 100-degree days. Seattle, which has had just three in the past 123 years, is...
2017 is so far the second-hottest year on record thanks to global warming.
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Climate Consensus - the 97%
2017 is behind only El Niño-amplified 2016.
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View of the cracked riverbed scorched by heat waves at the Nanchang section...
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...
How climate change will affect the quality of our water.
Last year, slimy green and foul-smelling algae took over Florida’s beaches, releasing toxins that killed fish and shellfish and sickened people. The algal bloom...
Rome, city of ancient aqueducts, faces water rationing.
Rome JournalBy JASON HOROWITZJuly 27, 2017ROME — Rome’s cold, clean water has flowed through ancient aqueducts, gurgled in baroque fountains and poured incessantly from thousands of...
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