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fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

I'm a climate scientist-extreme heat is ruining my family vacations

Mediterranean climates are increasingly prone to intense heatwaves, wildfires, and extreme precipitation due to climate change and the ocean's dominant role in heat storage.
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The Future of Floods Is Getting Murkier

On July 8, New Mexico's Rio Ruidoso unbound from its banks for the second year in a row and swelled to 20 times its typical knee-high depth. The cascade of water roared like a train, Kathy Papasan, a longtime resident on the river's edge, told me, and dark waves battered her porch. She and her husband had to flee uphill to a neighbor's house.
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