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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…
New Orleans’ levees face a hard test as storm bears down
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New Orleans’ levees face a hard test as storm bears down

Even as Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Mississippi River’s levees held up when those in other parts of the…
38 killed as floods worsen in Mozambique after second cyclone
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38 killed as floods worsen in Mozambique after second cyclone

Heavy rain battered northern Mozambique on Monday as residents and relief workers confronted the widespread devastation wrought by Cyclone Kenneth,…
Hurricane Willa slams Mexico’s Pacific coast, weakens
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Hurricane Willa slams Mexico’s Pacific coast, weakens

  Hurricane Willa crashed ashore in western Mexico Tuesday, lashing the Pacific coast with powerful winds and heavy rain before…
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