extreme weather
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Greek Scientists Want to Name Heat Waves Like Hurricanes
Greece has suffered through a summer of hellish heat. Now, experts want to give heat waves names and rankings like the ones assigned to hurricanes and tropical storms.
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81 Million Americans Are Suffering Under Heat Watches and Warnings
Extreme heat is blanketing a huge portion of the country, save those in the Great Lakes and New England (you lucky, lucky bastards). A staggering 81 million are living in areas under some form of heat warning from the U.S. National Weather Service.
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UN Warns World Is Failing to Prepare for Climate Change, But We Can Fix That
If world leaders don’t seriously step up their game to adapt to the climate crisis, we’ll see catastrophic human and economic losses everywhere, a new report from the world’s top global environmental authority warns.
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Super Typhoon Goni, the World’s Strongest Storm This Year, Makes Landfall in the Philippines
Days after being hit by Typhoon Molave, the Philippines braced itself as another storm, Super Typhoon Goni, made landfall on Saturday. Goni is a Category Five storm and is the strongest to make landfall this year so far.