Human-driven climate change threatens many species, including birds. Most studies on this topic focus on long-term climate trends, such as gradual rises in average temperatures or shifts in rainfall patterns. But extreme ...
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Warm overnight minimum temperatures set July records, impacting more than 55 million people across the eastern states. In July, 1,434 flash flood warnings—the second-highest July total in 40 years—and 17 flash flood emergencies ...
Environment
Aug 11, 2025
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More than 70 million Americans sweated through the muggiest first two months of summer on record as climate change has noticeably dialed up the Eastern United States' humidity in recent decades, an Associated Press data analysis ...
Environment
Aug 10, 2025
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Our ability to predict extreme weather from thunderstorms, like the recent catastrophic flash floods in Texas, is unsettlingly poor, even in the hours leading up to the event. Improvements in understanding, detecting and ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 9, 2025
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Tropical cyclones, commonly known as typhoons or hurricanes, can form in clusters and impact coastal regions back-to-back. For example, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria hit the U.S. sequentially within one month in 2017. ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 8, 2025
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As Asia grapples with a surge in extreme weather events, from record-breaking rainfall and typhoons to prolonged heat waves, one of the world's leading climate scientists is sounding the alarm with an eight-point manifesto ...
Environment
Aug 7, 2025
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The third-hottest July worldwide ended a string of record-breaking temperatures, but many regions were devastated by extreme weather amplified by global warming, the European climate monitoring service said Thursday.
Environment
Aug 7, 2025
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Record heat, massive fires, deadly floods... August has barely begun, but the summer of 2025 is already marked by a cascade of destructive and deadly weather in the Northern Hemisphere.
Environment
Aug 5, 2025
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Concern over pollution and its impact on weather patterns continues to increase—but what if severe weather events are also impacting pollution?
Environment
Aug 5, 2025
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Microclimates—as opposed to large-scale regional or even global scale macroclimate models—may hold the key to offsetting the negative impacts of extreme weather events on already vulnerable insect populations.
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