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October 13, 2023 6:34 PM
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The "scorching" heatwave in Mérida, Yucatán, continues to break records. On Monday, June 12, during spring, it reached 55.6°C. On July 14, in the summer, it reached 57.2°C, and on Thursday, October 12, in the middle of autumn, it reached 58.3°C. It was just 1.7 degrees short of baking the people of Mérida...
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October 13, 2023 9:05 AM
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By the time they finally left Texas for good, Thad Todd, 64, and Linda Nelson, 58, had sworn off driving the flooded-out roads to their home. It was easier to stuff backpacks with food and water and hike the mile through the thicket.
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October 13, 2023 8:20 AM
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James Rainbolt typically can tackle most problems at his rural water plant with some extra time or money. But he can’t fix this. “I just can’t make it rain,” he said. Like others across Southeast Kansas, Rainbolt remains helpless as he watches a persistent drought dry up the local water supply. He runs a public wholesale water supply district that provides the drinking water for several cities and rural water districts. The lack of rain has been so severe that it’s now threatening the water district’s intake pipe, which brings water from a local lake to the treatment plant.
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October 13, 2023 8:05 AM
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Chemicals that can make people sick have recently been found in fish, crabs and oysters in South Carolina as concerns grow about the threat the toxins pose to food and water across the Palmetto State. The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control documented the pollutants, known as forever chemicals, in freshwater fish caught in 18 waterways from the foothills to the coast. In some cases, the pollutants were found at high levels, state data show. All told, more than a dozen species contained forever chemicals, and many fish tested came from some of South Carolina’s...
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October 13, 2023 7:40 AM
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Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing – and potentially fatal – threat to people. In September 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory alerting doctors and public health officials...
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October 12, 2023 5:52 PM
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A perceived loophole in the Montreal Protocol has led U.S. factories to emit gases that damage the ozone layer and contribute to climate change.
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October 12, 2023 2:47 PM
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Donald Trump's shell company that aimed to take his media company public to the U.S. Stock Exchange is returning donor money, Reuters reported Thursday. It means they intend to "cancel all outstanding private investment in public equity (PIPE) investments.
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October 12, 2023 1:43 PM
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Climate change and human activity are causing the world's hydrological cycle to spin out of balance.
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October 12, 2023 10:07 AM
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The US Internal Revenue Service is asking that Microsoft pay a whopping $29 billion in unpaid taxes from 2004 to 2013, the company said in an official filing on Wednesday.
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October 11, 2023 9:49 PM
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The fires in Argentina were largely under control Wednesday, authorities said.
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October 11, 2023 1:54 PM
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The last Inuit hunters of Ittoqqortoormiit are a resilient bunch. Surviving among the icebergs of Greenland's Scoresby Sound, one of the toughest and most remote places on the planet, has never been easy. But their unique way of life is now in grave danger from galloping climate change.
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October 10, 2023 2:44 PM
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A wave of unusually extreme heat at the end of South America's winter was made 100 times more likely by climate change, according to a study published Tuesday.
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October 10, 2023 11:23 AM
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PG&E is facing the prospect of a state penalty and fines in connection with a huge and destructive wildfire that the utility caused in Northern California, regulators said Monday. The state Public Utilities Commission is eyeing a $45 million penalty against PG&E due to the utility’s role in causing the Dixie Fire that scorched portions of five California counties in 2021. The Dixie Fire cost $1.15 billion and roared through sections of Plumas, Butte, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama counties.
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October 10, 2023 11:09 AM
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Billions of people could struggle to survive in periods of deadly, humid heat within this century as temperatures rise, particularly in some of the world's largest cities, from Delhi to Shanghai, according to research published on Monday. Towards the higher end of warming scenarios, potentially lethal combinations of heat and humidity could spread further including into areas such as the U.S. Midwest, the authors of the report said. "It's very disturbing," study co-author Matthew Huber of Purdue University in the U.S. state of Indiana told Reuters.
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October 9, 2023 3:26 PM
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Findings regarding clouds above Mount Fuji and Mount Oyama highlight how microplastics are highly mobile...
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October 9, 2023 3:23 PM
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Many plant and animal species that originate from warmer regions are acclimating to more northern climates as the climate changes.
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October 9, 2023 3:19 PM
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Hot and dry weather across the Midwest is creating a ripe situation for wildfires, especially as farmers head into the fields for harvest.
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October 9, 2023 3:07 PM
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Shifting weather patterns caused by climate change are limiting when controlled burns can be carried out to prevent wildfires in the western United States, a new study warns.
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October 9, 2023 7:18 AM
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Authorities raised the death toll to 42 on Friday after a glacial lake overwhelmed a dam in the Indian Himalayas earlier this week, in one of the worst disasters in the area in nearly half a century.
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October 9, 2023 6:05 AM
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Nearly half the members of the U.S. government panel that helps draft dietary guidelines for Americans have ties to the food, pharmaceutical, or weight loss industry, a report released this week revealed.
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October 9, 2023 5:05 AM
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President George W. Bush and Republicans (and a handful of on-the-take Democrats) in Congress created the Medicare Advantage scam in 2003 as a way of routing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of for-profit insurance companies.
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October 8, 2023 1:39 PM
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Operation Deimos keeps track of the Agents of Behemoth: The Backstabbing Parasites of Corporate Personhood.
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October 6, 2023 7:27 PM
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People were forced to leave their homes in the night as the fire ravaged through the forest...
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October 6, 2023 7:25 PM
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From oil refineries in Oklahoma to wildfires in Canada, the new technology tracks heat emissions worldwide - and can help ensure big companies keep their emissions promises.
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