Private firefighting crews in California spark conflict after alleged illegal backfires in Glass Fire
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Clear signs that the Grímsvötn volcano on Iceland is getting ready to erupt again – authorities have recently raised the threat level for the volcano
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Find air quality near your exact location
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Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years
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I cry for the mountains - A California rancher's account of the wildfires' devastating impact on his family, his cattle, and the forests
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Sweden, Finland and Estonia to look at new evidence on MS Estonia sinking in 1994 – ferry sank with the loss of 852 lives, in one of Europe's worst peacetime maritime disasters
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What the photos of wildfires and smoke don’t show you
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Climate change will force a new American migration - Life is becoming increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, which could cause millions of people to relocate
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Severe wildfire conditions will continue across California, but pattern shift will improve air quality
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Oregon residents are illegally stopping drivers at gunpoint during wildfire evacuations, sheriff says
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They know how to prevent megafires. Why won’t anybody listen?
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A desperate rescue: A father's heartbreaking attempt to save his family from a raging fire
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How a massive bomb came together in Beirut’s port
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California El Dorado wildfire sparked by device to reveal baby's gender
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2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
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California Governor Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres.
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National Hurricane Center nailed track forecast for Laura within a mile and three days in advance
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Record heat, unprecedented lightning fire siege in Northern California; more dry lightning to come
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Broken cable damages Arecibo Radio Observatory
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Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network
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Beirut hit by massive explosions, killing over 135 people and injuring over 5000
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The Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 BCE)
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The great climate migration has begun
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China blows up dam as death toll from flooding rises
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Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away.
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California severely short on firefighting crews after COVID-19 lockdown at prison camps
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Risk of 40°C/104°F heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office—a temperature never before recorded in the UK could possibly occur as frequently as once every 3.5 years by 2100
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Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
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Siberian wildfires swell amid historic heatwave, as highs of 38°C reported north of the arctic circle
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Why locusts are descending on East Africa
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Iceland hit by thousands of quakes and threat of volcanic eruption – the island nation has experienced increased seismic activity in the past month
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Overconsumption and growth economy key drivers of environmental crises
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Worst attack in twenty-seven years: Swarms of locusts destroy crops in several Indian states
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Pakistan plane crash survivor: 'All I could see was fire'
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Sweden suffers one of its strongest earthquakes at an Arctic iron ore mine – quake measured magnitude 4.1 and forced the mine to close
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The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease
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RIP Captain Jen Casey -RCAF Snowbirds Public Affairs Officer that perished in crash today
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2000-2010 drought in Upper Missouri River Basin driest in 1,200 years
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Famine is a choice. One billion people are now food-insecure. But starvation is not an inevitability
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The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months
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Experts knew a pandemic was coming. Here’s what they’re worried about next.
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A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?
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Awakening volcanic region in Iceland could cause disruption for centuries – Reykjanes peninsula's last active period started in 10th century and lasted 300 years
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New report released for MH370 search by the Independent Research Group
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Venezuelan patrol ship sunk itself after ramming a cruise liner with a reinforced hull
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A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than one out of ten
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A UN locust forecaster explains the crisis in East Africa
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Floodlines - An eight-part narrative podcast thoroughly reassessing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, fifteen years later
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Two German tourists killed in Arctic avalanche – part of a guided snowmobile tour of the island of Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago
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Train driver and rail worker dead after passenger train derails near Wallan, north of Melbourne
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