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Climate change is overwhelming our crappy water infrastructure
Six Nebraska public drinking water systems went offline, and dozens of wastewater treatment facilities failed.
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Record-breaking flooding in Nebraska is visible from space
A hurricane-strength storm system unleashed torrential rainfall over the deep Nebraska snowpack.
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Radical plan to artificially cool Earth’s climate could be safe, study finds
Experts worry that injecting sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere could put some regions at risk.
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Mozambique braces for ‘extremely dangerous’ Cyclone Idai
It's a situation the World Meteorological Organization has called a “potential worst case scenario.”
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The Arctic’s ticking ‘carbon bomb’ could blow up the Paris Agreement
We've already "locked in" a hotter future for the Arctic, new U.N. report says.
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It’s raining on Greenland’s ice sheet. That’s a big problem.
Rainstorms are now driving nearly one-third of the frozen island’s rapid melt.
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Our planet just set a scary new carbon dioxide record
Earth’s carbon dioxide levels typically peak in May.
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Nearly all tornadoes are survivable, so why are people still dying?
The devastation in Alabama's Lee County isn’t just a weather disaster; it’s a failure of society.
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Your weather tweets are showing your climate amnesia
A database of 2 billion tweets shows people get so used to weather extremes they might stop noticing them. That's bad for action on climate change.
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If climate change makes the clouds disappear, we’re screwed
Carbon dioxide emissions could mean blue skies. That's not a good thing.
