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Wildfires cause further devastation in Turkey, Greece
Aug 06, 2021 16:58The Turkish fires have been fuelled by a southern European heatwave fed by hot air from North Africa, which has also seen chaos grip other parts of the Mediterranean in recent days. Experts have warned that climate change is increasing both the frequency and intensity of wildfires.
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Baked barnacles, scorched cherries: The disastrous impact of heatwaves on plants and animals
Aug 04, 2021 12:26More than a billion sea creatures across the Pacific north-west perished in this year’s heatwave, and it’s just a taste of what’s to come.
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Eliminating carbon emissions by 2050 would save 74 million lives this century: Study
Aug 01, 2021 12:26Roughly 74 million lives could be saved this century if the emission of heat-trapping gases is cut to zero by 2050, compared with a far more lethal scenario in which society fails to limit global temperature rise to less than 4°C.
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Record-breaking heat waves have arrived decades earlier than predicted
Jul 30, 2021 14:01The heat waves of 2021, which have pummeled western regions of the United States and Canada, have killed, at a minimum, hundreds of people.
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Thunderstorms leave roads and tube stations flooded in London
Jul 27, 2021 14:36Torrential rain has flooded roads and tube stations in London after thunderstorms hit the south of England on Sunday (25 Jul 2021). Barts Health NHS trust declared a major incident after the flooding led to problems at Whipps Cross hospital and Newham Hospital in the east of the city.
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Huge Oregon blaze grows as wildfires burn across western US
Jul 20, 2021 14:04The largest wildfire in the US torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon on Sunday (18 Jul 2021) , one of dozens of major blazes burning across the west as critically dangerous fire weather loomed in the coming days. The destructive Bootleg Fire just north of the California border grew to more than 476 sq miles (1,210 sq km), an area about the size of Los Angeles.
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Climate experts shocked at severity of floods in Germany and Belgium
Jul 18, 2021 12:07Climate scientists were stunned by the intensity of flooding in Germany and Belgium that killed at least 120 people and damaged tens of thousands of homes, with experts saying they did not expect such extreme weather to result from the human-caused climate crisis as rapidly as it has.
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'Biggest story in the world right now': Humanity has flipped Amazon from carbon sink to source
Jul 18, 2021 12:01Following years of warnings and mounting fears among scientists, "terrifying" research revealed that climate change and deforestation have turned parts of the Amazon basin, a crucial "sink," into a source of planet-heating carbon dioxide.
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More than 60 wildfires rage across US west – including blaze bigger than Portland
Jul 15, 2021 16:00More than 60 wildfires were burning across at least 10 states in the parched American west on Tuesday (13 July) , with the largest, in Oregon, consuming an area nearly twice the size of Portland.
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How bad are US wildfires? Even Hawaii is battling a surge
Jul 07, 2021 13:57Volcanic eruptions and tsunamis also threaten Hawaii, but natural causes such as lightning or flowing lava account for only a small fraction of wildfires in the state, according to fire prevention officials. Instead, people ignite more than 90 percent of Hawaii’s wildfires.