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Another climate study confirms what was known.

Source: DailyClimate The latest National Climate Assessment, released Nov. 3, found the same thing countless other reports have found: Global warming is happening and human activity is driving most of...

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Climate change upped the odds of Harvey’s extreme rains, study finds.

Source: DailyClimate Rescue boats fill a flooded street as victims are evacuated from Harvey’s rising waters Aug. 28 in Houston. (David J. Phillip/AP) The extreme rains that inundated the Houston area...

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Climate change upped the odds of Harvey’s extreme rains.

Source: DailyClimate Rescue boats fill a flooded street as victims are evacuated from Harvey’s rising waters Aug. 28 in Houston. (David J. Phillip/AP) The extreme rains that inundated the Houston area...

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So you want to geoengineer the planet? Beware the hurricanes.

Source: DailyClimate Every country on Earth, save for cough one, has banded together to cut emissions and stop the runaway heating of our only home. That’s nearly 200 countries working to keep the...

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Puerto Rico struggles to assess hurricane’s health effects.

Source: DailyClimate Mario Tama/Getty Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico in mid-September, disrupted water supplies in some areas. Nightfall sets a hard deadline for a team of public-health...

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House passes flood insurance renewal in wake of massive storms.

Source: DailyClimate A man wades in deep floodwaters on September 6, 2017 in Houston, Texas following Hurricane Harvey. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images House Republicans overcame bipartisan opposition...

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Weathering the heat.

Source: DailyClimate click to enlarge Illustration by Ryan Raphael The group of UC Berkeley researchers woke up early each morning around 2 o’clock and piled into a truck to make their rounds....

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Insurance industry nurses wounds inflicted by costly disasters.

Source: DailyClimate 2017 may be the most costly year for disaster losses – and insurance may become “unaffordable” in some places, experts say By Laurie Goering LONDON, Nov 21 (Thomson Reuters...

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Where are the world’s most fragile cities?

Source: DailyClimate A man walks at the site of the October 14 twin bombings in Mogadishu, Somalia. Marius Bosch/Reuters Climate change, economic inequality, and political unrest are making some of the...

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Cash is best when tackling hunger caused by drought.

Source: DailyClimate Cash is critical in the short-term for farmers suffering from dry weather because “if your farm is lacking rainfall, it doesn’t matter if you have a variety of agricultural inputs...

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