effects of climate change
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Not Cool, The World’s Getting So Hot, Scientists Needed a New Colour
On Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to announce a new heat risk system to better communicate the severity of hot weather. The color-coded system added magenta, a fifth-tier of heat severity, beyond red, to communicate extreme heat “rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little…
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Australian Officials Declare the Arrival of El Niño During Blistering Heat Wave
Authorities declared the arrival of El Niño, amid dangerous heat waves that are raising the country’s risk of widespread bushfires. The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) announced the arrival of El Niño in an outlook after seeing a combination of conditions that include higher-than-average ocean temperatures. “Climate model outlooks suggest this El Niño is likely to continue…
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At Least 7 Hikers Dead After Glacier Collapse in Italy Amid Record Heat
At least seven people are dead and five are still missing Tuesday after part of a glacier collapsed in the Italian Alps on Sunday during record-high temperatures.
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Climate Change May Be Giving the World’s Oceans Amnesia
Climate change is making the world’s oceans lose their “memory,” according to new research.