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Arkansas toddler still missing after floodwaters swept through rural town.
By William Wan and Kristine Phillips,
William Wan The Washington Post
HUNTSVILLE, Ark. — They were moving to a new house, a new life.
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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.
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Today's Arctic is a 'profoundly different place.'
NASA scientists on a 2010 mission to the Arctic. Photo courtesy of NASA.
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