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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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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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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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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China blows up dam as death toll from flooding rises
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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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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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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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Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in East Africa
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Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous Australian 'dinosaur trees'
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The Australian government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach
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The ecological devastation of the Victorian bushfires has been laid bare in a leaked report which warns some species are likely to already be extinct
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A News Corp employee has accused the organisation of a "misinformation campaign" filled with "irresponsible" and "dangerous" coverage of the national bushfire crisis
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How big are the fires burning in eastern Australia? Interactive map
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Australian government deploys army reservists, third navy ship to support firefighters
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New Zealand 'blanketed' by smoke and dust from raging NSW and QLD bushfires
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Miserable Christmas Day: Typhoon Phanfone kills at least sixteen in Philippines
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Firefighters in Australia say situation 'out of control' as Prime Minister denies request for emergency aid
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Australia heatwave: State of emergency declared over bushfire crisis
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Heatwaves on multiple continents linked by jet stream tendency
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New Zealand volcano: Tourists injured and missing after eruption on White Island (live updates)
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Mapping the Australian fires
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High tide in Venice reaches highest level in over fifty years, causing severe flooding and hundreds of millions of euros in damage
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Former NSW Fire chief frustrated at Govt for 'sweeping climate change under the rug'
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Bahamas: Hurricane hell
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NSW fires destroy at least 150 homes, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast communities under bushfire threat in Qld
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California contemplates a dark and fiery future
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New bond lets investors turn a profit while helping California prevent fires
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The 160-mile-long Garlock fault in California has begun moving for the first time on record; has the potential of producing a magnitude eight earthquake
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A worst-possible wildfire scenario for Southern California
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