Solar power is bailing Texas out this summer
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Rio Grande runs dry in Albuquerque for the first time in forty years
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Reaching closer to Earth's core, one lava scoop at a time – 2021 eruption in Iceland gave researchers rare and illuminating access to the mantle
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Wildfires rage in France and Spain as heatwaves sear Europe
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How people live off a garbage mountain that keeps catching on fire | World Wide Waste
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No injuries after explosion reported at Texas liquefied natural gas facility
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California imposes sweeping ban on pumping river water in San Joaquin Valley, Bay Area
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What actually happened to the Concorde
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Why the Texas power grid is vulnerable to blackouts during winter storms and heat waves
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Nurdles: The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of
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The world has no choice but to care about India’s heat wave
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'Unprecedented' water restrictions ordered for millions in Southern California
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Heatwave in India breaks records, still worsening
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Bilge dumping: The worst pollution you've never heard of
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Simultaneous tragedy: Fire at Evergreen Packaging
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The world’s fastest bomber: The XB-70 Valkyrie
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California pumps too much groundwater, especially during droughts. Now, it's learning to refill the overdrawn bucket.
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Chernobyl's death toll (or, how I learned to live with Chernobyl's legacy)
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A stereo movie created by NASA researchers shows the altitude of the Tonga plume during the eruption
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Storm Eunice blows off rooftops with highest wind speeds on record in England
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US skateboarder Josh Neuman, 22, among four people killed in Iceland plane crash
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13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants.
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The Texas electrical grid failure was a warmup
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Taliban delegation is to hold talks with Norwegian officials and Afghan civil society representatives in Oslo next week
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Tsunami hits Tonga after giant volcano eruption
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What happened in Colorado was something much scarier than a wildfire
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A primer on Nature Based Solutions to environmental hazards
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Rebuilding the Oroville Dam spillways
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Gathering storm: The industrial infrastructure catastrophe looming over America’s gulf coast
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'Inexcusable': Amazon under fire after warehouse collapse kills at least six
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The Thames Barrier must never fail. Here's why it doesn't.
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Investigation launched for 'drunkenness at sea' after ships crash in Baltic Sea – one crew member of capsized Danish barge has died and another is still missing
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Unable to travel back to Iceland to see a volcano erupt, Sigur Rós star Jónsi reenacted it with sound installations, scents and sculptures in a New York City exhibit
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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Flood damage cuts all rail access to Canada's largest port of Vancouver
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Polish forces use water cannons to push back migrants trying to cross the country’s border with Belarus, an escalation they said was overseen by Belarusian forces as part of a deepening battle with EU
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Is someone making artificial earthquakes under La Palma? (No.)
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US west coast braces for ‘atmospheric river’ as huge storm brews
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Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.
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UN report warns of global water crisis (floods and droughts) amid climate change
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US civil engineers bent the rules to give New Orleans extra protection from hurricanes
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Massive oil spill sends crude onto Orange County, CA beaches
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Trans-Alaska pipeline under threat from thawing permafrost
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Climate change in Brazil: Fire, frost, and drought shake global markets
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Why cranes collapse
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The secret to preventing killer heatwaves isn’t what you think
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Massive fire threatens Lake Tahoe, more ordered to flee
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The Middle East is running out of water
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Surfside condo collapse: What we know so far
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Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
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