A mysterious rose survived weeks under water after Hurricane Katrina. Its origins are still unknown but fans are planting it across the US.
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How can England possibly be running out of water?
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Climate change made a two-week-long heatwave in Norway, Sweden and Finland around 2°C hotter and at least ten times more likely, study says
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Photos show a Filipino couple walking down a flooded aisle on their wedding day
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8.8 magnitude earthquake near Russia prompts tsunami alerts in Hawaii, Alaska and West Coast
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US federal government ends information delivery contract critical to hurricane forecasting
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Not every day that Father Christmas briefs his elves about the hazards of sunstroke, but this summer northern Finland has seen temperatures hover around 30°C for days on end
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Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
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Nebraska sues neighboring Colorado over how much water it’s drawing from the South Platte River
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Scientists estimate European heatwave caused 2,300 deaths last week
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Weather forecast is for extreme heat in Europe. Heat related deaths are expected.
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Two killed, one wounded in sniper ambush as Idaho firefighters come under siege from rifle fire
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An experiment in Lahaina, Maui, is providing prefabricated homes to those affected by the wildfires
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How sewage recycling works
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Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano erupts
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One man's vision brought water back to a drought-ridden Ecuadorian town. He used a map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon.
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The Lost Bus | Official teaser
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Millions of Californians will need to change how they landscape their homes
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Hollywood has left Los Angeles. For years, studios found it cheaper to shoot elsewhere. Post-industry-collapse, elsewhere is the only place they’ll shoot.
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Decades of searching and a chance discovery: Why finding Leadbeater’s possum in New South Wales is such big news
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Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, spews plumes of ash
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Smoke to pour into the US as Canada wildfires force province’s largest evacuation in ‘living memory’
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Groundwater is rapidly declining in the Colorado River Basin, satellite data show
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Lessons from hurricane Helene on evacuation orders, messaging and emergency managers
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MV Derbyshire; The sinking no one could explain
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Iceland's Grindavík play again after eighteen-month seismic gap – volcano caused devastation in 2023, but miraculously their football pitch survived unscathed
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Running the first 100km of the oldest river in the world to see what all the fuss is about. Unlike rivers affected by local populations of people, the Finke is affected by those who don’t live there.
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The Palisades Fire destroyed more than 1,200 buildings. Yet one newly built home—surrounded by ashes and charred foundations—stood almost untouched. How did it survive when its neighbors didn’t?
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Living among volcanoes is nothing new in Iceland – but as a new eruptive era begins, the Reykjavík region is honing defenses and rethinking development
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Riding the storm: Turning to non-admitted US insurers amid natural disasters and policy perils
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Arctic haze induced by an Icelandic volcanic eruption – evidence from China's highest-resolution trace gas monitoring
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Coolcations in destinations such as Norway, Iceland and Finland are expected to continue seeing a boom this summer – but could they cause overtourism in the Nordics?
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Scientists scramble to track LA wildfires’ long-term health impacts
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Race to save lives and ancient artefacts in South Korea as wildfires rage
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New fire maps put nearly four million Californians in hazardous zones
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Record-breaking wildfires in the Western US (2020) reduced solar radiation by up to 70%, darkening skies and lowering temperatures by 5°C
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Donald Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.
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Photos and videos of latest Kilauea eruption - March 6, 2025
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The Japanese mayor who built a floodgate no one wanted — and saved his town from a massive tsunami after his death
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itch.io: California Fire Relief Bundle
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LA races to save a vital piece of history – Ernest A. Batchelder tiles found amid wildfire ash
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Massive sinkholes put hundreds in Amazonian town at risk
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Fog harvesting could provide water for the driest cities
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A visualization of wildfires and climate change
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State of emergency declared on Santorini after earthquakes shake island
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Power company finds evidence of unusual flashes around start of Eaton fire in Los Angeles
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Playing God - Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina (2017)
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Some residents say they were in the dark as Los Angeles fires spread with no evacuation order
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FireAid LA Benefit Concert livestream
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Slush flows can be more deadly than avalanches – Norwegian scientists are racing to help predict this hidden hazard
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