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Windowless skyscrapers. These often misunderstood structures play mysterious roles in our urban landscape. In this video we explore the purposes and intriguing stories of these architectural anomalies
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Weather extremes threaten food security (2012)
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Bamboo rising: Lari Octa Green shelters by Yasmeen Lari in Sindh province, Pakistan
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In the face of mounting climate risks, the US insurance safety net is falling apart
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Volcanic Iceland is rumbling again as magma rises − a geologist explains eruptions in the land of fire and ice
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Mushrooms, snails and plant roots: The surprising story of how your clothes got their color
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Icelandic authorities are building protective walls around a geothermal power plant in the country's southwest to protect it from possible lava flows
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Iceland volcano won't spew more carbon than humanity – social media is once again filling up with such claims, as it always does when volcanoes make news
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Iceland has declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes raised fears of a Fagradalsfjall volcanic eruption
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Deep in the Arctic permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is protecting Africa's food supply
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Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (1976)
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Captain found guilty of ‘seaman’s manslaughter’ in boat fire that killed thirty-four off California coast
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Denmark is preparing to make a significant pledge toward a new climate disaster fund, breaking ranks with other developed countries
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Copenhagen is moving away from concrete and asphalt and towards softer, “spongier” settlements that work with the natural flow of the water cycle
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Coming up short: The crash of MarkAir flight 3087
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Benjamin Netanyahu lobbied EU to pressure Egypt into accepting Gaza refugees
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Swarm of earthquakes in Iceland heralds next volcanic eruption – scientists say rise in seismic activity confirms south-west region is in buildup phase
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Drought and salt tolerant pumpkins grown for food in Bangladesh - potential uses worldwide
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Drought in Amazon Rainforest makes water level in Manaus sink to just thirteen meters, the lowest since records began
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Cogs in the machine: The crash of Colgan Air flight 3407 and its legacy
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Geiranger in Norway, where a fissure growing in the side of a cliff could dislodge a rockslide so powerful it unleashes a deadly tsunami
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Thirsty families in Gaza eke out trickle of water
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A matter of life and death: Water runs out for two million people in Gaza
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Use of weather derivatives surges as extreme climate events rock the globe
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Countdown to collision: The crash of LATAM Perú flight 2213
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Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change – one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse
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Europe’s water crisis: How supplies turned to ‘gold dust’
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One hundred seconds of confusion: The crash of China Airlines flight 140
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How not to fly a plane: The 2017 Teterboro Learjet crash
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UN Secretary-General: A worrisome new nuclear arms race is brewing. Any use of a nuclear weapon — anytime, anywhere and in any context — would unleash a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions.
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Three die in South Africa navy submarine tragedy
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Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold
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Summer of severe heatwaves predicted for Australia as Bureau of Meteorology declares El Niño
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Growing fire risks, rising insurance costs, home owner concerns, spell opportunity for fire hardening and prevention industry
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Libya flooding: 10,000 people thought to be missing after dams burst
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Do droughts make floods worse?
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Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake: ‘Trying to avert disaster’
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Flooding in Libya leaves 2,000 people feared dead and more missing after storm collapsed dams
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The dead man’s gambit: The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 961
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Tempest over Texas: The crash of Braniff International Airways flight 352
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A deadly 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit near the historic Moroccan city of Marrakesh
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Three big, bold ideas to douse the flames of a world on fire
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As Hurricane Idalia caused flooding, some electric vehicles exposed to saltwater caught fire
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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How a Japanese-run wastewater treatment plant in Mexico shamelessly polluted until the site was shut down
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Should airships make a comeback?
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Machines can't always take the heat: How heat waves threaten everything from cars to computers
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Locals have been sounding the alarm for years about Lahaina wildfire risk
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As Idalia hit Florida, all of NOAA’s hurricane-hunting planes were grounded
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