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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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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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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An experiment in Lahaina, Maui, is providing prefabricated homes to those affected by the wildfires
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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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Millions of Californians will need to change how they landscape their homes
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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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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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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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Arctic haze induced by an Icelandic volcanic eruption – evidence from China's highest-resolution trace gas monitoring
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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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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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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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Did a private equity fire truck industry consolidation worsen the Los Angeles fires?
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Eighteen months after Maui wildfires destroyed over 2,000 homes, only three have been rebuilt
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Wildfire smoke is always toxic. LA's is even worse. Experts expect long term health impacts.
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California fire facts
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How Watch Duty app became crucial for tracking the Los Angeles wildfires
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What's in the pink flame retardant planes are dropping on the LA fires?
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Why fire hydrants ran dry as wildfires tore through Los Angeles
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Los Angeles area wildfires: over 5K acres burned and over 30K people forced to evacuate so far
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California will require insurance companies to offer coverage in wildfire zones
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Physical protective barriers have been built to hold back avalanches – but Svalbard has also turned to tech, with the help of a telecom firm and the University of Svalbard
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In a first, Arizona’s attorney general sues an industrial farm over its water use
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Costs from hurricane Helene more than $53 billion in North Carolina. Currently available funding is significantly less than that.
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California tsunami hazard area map
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Tsunami warning issued in Northern California after 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast
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Hurricane season appears to be unofficially over, so let’s do a quick review and talk about bomb cyclones in the West
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