4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (591+ words) WASHINGTON – Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus....

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1185+ words) It's an idyllic setting in North Carolina's Inner Banks, where fields of cotton, soybeans and corn stretch for miles, country roads wend through stands of pines and thousands of bird watchers converge to witness the spring migration. But it's what’s…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (429+ words) Fifty miles (80 kilometers) of ditches dug decades ago for an abandoned farming venture drained much of the water from thousands of years of accumulated peat — partially decayed organic matter up to 15 feet (4.6 meters) deep — leaving the site vulnerable to drought…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (789+ words) Alex Turnbull And John Leicester CHAMONIX-MONT-BLANC – For centuries, French and Italian mountain communities on the flanks of Western Europe's highest peak have gazed upon seemingly eternal glaciers and snow that gave the colossus its name: Mont Blanc, the white mountain....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1300+ words) Joshua A. Bickel And Alexa St. John BELOIT, Kan. – Bryce Black kneels in a wheat field battered by intense drought. He holds two strands, remarking on how small the seed head is compared with what's normal. After a late October rain…...

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1+ week, 6+ day ago   (433+ words) Cooling from air conditioning saves lives — more than 5,000 a year in the United States alone — but it also heats up the planet and taxes our electrical grid, scientists say. Experts from 75 countries and 250 cities are trying to walk the tightrope…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (691+ words) Victoria Milko And Sibi Arasu DHADING – Workers shoveled thick mud from a flood-ravaged power station in central Nepal this week, trying to restore electricity to more than 20,000 people. The floods that swept through Nepal and China, killing hundreds and leaving…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (188+ words) MIAMI – Hurricane Karina strengthened Monday into a powerful Category 4 storm in the Pacific Ocean but isn't threatening land, forecasters said. The storm has intensified quickly since becoming a hurricane Sunday and has been fueled by warm waters far offshore, the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (624+ words) But Cave Creek Mayor Robert Morris can't shake the real possibility that it's not enough to keep the desert community of about 5,000 people afloat well into the future. And a recent federal plan to address a deepening crisis in the…...