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From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere

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Dr. Sarah Adams

In sweltering Brazil, worst-ever flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in ...

Here’s why experts don’t think cloud seeding played a role in Dubai’s downpour

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Dr. Sarah Adams

With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United ...

Global hot streak continues. February, winter, world’s oceans all break high temperature marks.

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Dr. Sarah Adams

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole ...

Globe breaks heat record for 8th straight month. Golfers get to play in Minnesota’s ‘lost winter’

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Dr. Sarah Adams

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For the eighth straight month in January, Earth was record hot, according to the European climate agency. ...

New UN weather agency chief says rate of global warming is speeding up

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Dr. Sarah Adams

BALTIMORE (AP) — The new chief of the World Meteorological Organization said it looks to her that the rate of human-caused climate ...

Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category

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Dr. Sarah Adams

A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of ...

Global warming was primary cause of unprecedented Amazon drought, study finds

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Dr. Sarah Adams

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of last year’s severe drought in the ...

US Space Force satellite data shines light on mystery of Arctic warming

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Satellite data shows melting Arctic sea ice has experienced a reduction in how much sunlight it reflects, triggering an unprecedented rise in ...

What is ‘new denial?’ An alarming wave of climate misinformation is spreading on YouTube, watchdog says

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Dr. Sarah Adams

If you’ve been on YouTube lately, you might have come across someone claiming wind and solar energy don’t work, that rising sea ...

2023 was the hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA say

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Dr. Sarah Adams

It’s official: 2023 was the hottest year on record. On Friday (Jan. 12), climate scientists from NASA and NOAA unveiled data showing ...