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Laura makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana near Texas
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Laura makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana near Texas

DELCAMBRE, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura made landfall in southwestern Louisiana as a ferocious Category 4 monster early Thursday, swamping…
Laura now forecast to be a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane
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Laura now forecast to be a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Hurricane Laura is forecast to rapidly power up into a “catastrophic” Category Four hurricane, even stronger…
Fierce storm surge feared as Laura bears down on Gulf Coast
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Fierce storm surge feared as Laura bears down on Gulf Coast

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tropical Storm Laura entered the warm and deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, gathering…
California’s heat wave and lightning storms rooted in same weather pattern
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California’s heat wave and lightning storms rooted in same weather pattern

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The atmospheric pattern stoking California’s record-breaking heat wave this week has also played a role in…
Flood death toll hits 20 as Japan warned of more rainfall
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Flood death toll hits 20 as Japan warned of more rainfall

TOKYO (Reuters) – The death toll from floods and landslides unleashed by torrential rains on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu…
Heavy rain floods southern Japan; over a dozen presumed dead
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Heavy rain floods southern Japan; over a dozen presumed dead

TOKYO (AP) — Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people…
Slash emissions now or miss chance to avert climate disaster: UN
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Slash emissions now or miss chance to avert climate disaster: UN

The world will miss its chance to avert climate disaster without an immediate and all-but-impossible fall in fossil fuel emissions,…
Ten killed as storms ravage eastern Japan: NHK
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Ten killed as storms ravage eastern Japan: NHK

TOKYO (Reuters) – The death toll from torrential rains that caused flooding and mudslides in Japan climbed to 10 on…
Trump suggested nuking hurricanes: report
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Trump suggested nuking hurricanes: report

US President Donald Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes before they made landfall in the United States, Axios reported…
China: Landslide kills dozens as Typhoon Lekima rages
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China: Landslide kills dozens as Typhoon Lekima rages

The death toll from a typhoon in eastern China that has been classed as the third-largest on record rose to…
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