Cyclone Freddy, packing powerful winds and torrential rain, killed more than 100 people in Malawi and Mozambique on its return to southern Africa's mainland, authorities said Monday.
Environment
Mar 13, 2023
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A storm that began with snow, strong winds and bitter cold into the eastern Dakotas and western Minnesota early Wednesday and began moving east was making travel treacherous and grounded flights on one of the most anticipated ...
Environment
Dec 23, 2020
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Christmas Day floods in the Philippines forced the evacuation of nearly 46,000 people from their homes, civil defence officials said Monday.
Environment
Dec 26, 2022
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Every spring, streets across Australia turn purple with the delicate, falling flowers of jacarandas. This year, they'll likely be flowering over Christmas.
Ecology
Dec 2, 2020
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If you ask yourself what the biggest threat to human existence is you'd probably think of nuclear war, global warming or a large-scale pandemic disease. But assuming we can overcome such challenges, are we really safe?
Space Exploration
Jan 19, 2017
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A vast swath of a vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke.
Environment
Sep 13, 2020
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Forest fires have killed 24 people, injured nearly 1,000 and destroyed 800 homes in five days as a blistering heat wave grips south-central Chile, authorities said Sunday.
Environment
Feb 5, 2023
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A research paper in Estuaries and Coasts provides the first step in improving coastal flood risk by analyzing in detail, how long different UK rivers take to discharge to the coast following heavy storm rainfall.
Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2022
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From 78 degrees on Tuesday to snow on Wednesday? Swings like this aren't unusual in the central United States, where weather can quickly shift from one extreme to another. That's especially true in the springtime, when conditions ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 12, 2019
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Sand dunes, like many ecosystems, have more than one comfort zone. Variations in moisture, especially, can shift them from active, blowing waves of dry sand to rolling mounds with soils held down by grass and low shrubs.
Earth Sciences
Feb 26, 2020
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