Why does Iceland's Fagradalsfjall volcano look like a school science project – spatter cone and runny lava give this eruption its classic look
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Simple hand-built structures can help streams survive wildfires and drought
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What really happened during the Texas power grid outage?
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Iceland volcanic eruption under way in Fagradalsfjall near Reykjavik – no-fly zone established and public advised to stay away from area as red cloud lights up night sky
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How Japan's largest earthquakes really felt | Tohoku (2011), Kobe (1995)
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Tsunami risk being assessed due to 8.0M earthquake in the Kermadec Islands region, north of New Zealand
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Southwestern Iceland was rocked by a series of earthquakes Wednesday, which have caused increased volcanic activity
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Hurricanes and typhoons moving 30km closer to coasts every decade for the last forty years
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Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries?
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Body found in Norwegian landslide – rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for ten people missing in a hillside collapse
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Landslide in the Norwegian village of Gjerdrum has left at least nine people injured and buried houses – twenty-six people are unaccounted for
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Rebuilding after a wildfire? Most states don't require fire-resistant materials
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Growth is higher in US counties with moderate-to-high wildfire risk
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Global increase in major tropical cyclone exceedance probability over the past four decades
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Icelandic prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir kept calm under pressure as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake interrupted her live interview with the Washington Post
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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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What the photos of wildfires and smoke don’t show you
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He fought wildfires while imprisoned. California reported him to ICE for deportation
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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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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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CA Gov. 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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Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network
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The Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 BCE)
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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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Siberian wildfires swell amid historic heatwave, as highs of 38°C reported north of the arctic circle
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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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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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2000-2010 drought in Upper Missouri River Basin driest in 1,200 years
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Experts knew a pandemic was coming. Here’s what they’re worried about next
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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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A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than one out of ten
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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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Celeste Barber’s $52 million bushfire fund has been held up thanks to legal wrangling
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An open letter on Australian bushfires and climate: urgent need for deep cuts in carbon emissions [signed by Laureates of the Australian Research Council]
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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits between Cuba and Jamaica
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