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Arkansas toddler still missing after floodwaters swept through rural town.

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Climate change will alter flow of River Nile.

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Why big animals can't take a little rain.

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California got more snow this winter than past 4 total.

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Western water crunch has climate change fingerprints, scientists find.

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Record breaking rain, dangerous flooding in Triangle, rivers rising.

The rain finally stopped falling and streams began to recede in the Triangle, but many low-lying areas remain flooded after a storm that...

Today's Arctic is a 'profoundly different place.'

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