Very beautiful, and useful too.
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An expert explains all the wonderful ways the atmosphere protects life on Earth.
A commuter train passes the swollen River Taff, near Cardiff.
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The UK has seen drought conditions since 2018, but the flooding of June 2019 shouldn’t come as a surprise.
England v Pakistan Royal London One-Day Series, The Kia Oval in 2019.
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When bad weather hits, there’s a complex formula organisers turn to to make lost game time fair.
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A scientist explains how global warming is affecting the entire world – from the mountains, to the sea.
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Thousands of lives have been saved thanks to an Indian state’s effective disaster-relief planning.
The coral reef of Rarotonga helped scientists create a better climate history.
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El Niño events can affect millions of people around the world, causing drought in Australia and floods in the Americas.
Blizzard conditions cover the Central and Northern Plains on March 13, 2019.
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What creates such dramatic storms across the US Great Plains? The key factors are topography and temperature differences.
Monsoon clouds approach in India.
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The Indian summer monsoon rainfall affects the lives of over a billion people. By looking at how prehistoric climate changes affected it, scientists can contribute to its future prediction.
Frozen fountain in New York City during a bomb cyclone event, Jan. 4, 2018.
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What raises a common winter storm to the level of ‘bomb cyclone’? It’s all about rapid, sharp changes in atmospheric pressure – and the scientists who coined the term meant to highlight their power.
About 100 homes in Angus, Ont. were damaged by a tornado in June 2014. Ten lost their roofs and had to be demolished.
Gregory Alan Kopp, Western University
Weather-related catastrophic events have cost Canadians more than $17 billion in the past decade. That only stands to grow, unless building codes change to make homes more resilient.
Dirty water from Queensland’s historic flooding, triggered by weeks of exceptional monsoon rains earlier in the year.
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The hottest Australian summer on record is ending, and it’s likely we’ve got a warm, dry autumn to come.
Bloomin’ early.
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Record heat in February 2019 caused shock and delight in equal measure. Behind the balmy weather lie challenges for British wildlife.
Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) seen by Hubble.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted clouds and storms on the solar system’s ice giants.
The heat makes the drought even worse, because it makes the plants more thirsty so they have to drink more.
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We can’t make it rain. But you are already helping if you don’t use more water than you need. And you can talk to your parents about the planet getting warmer, because the heat makes drought worse.
Water vapor rising from the surface of Lake Michigan condenses into droplets on a sub-zero day, Jan. 6, 2014.
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An atmospheric scientist explains why water can do some strange-looking things at very cold temperatures, and what’s different about snowfalls on Mars.
Bundled up against the cold in downtown Chicago, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019.
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Life-threatening cold temperatures in the central US are caused by changes in wind circulation in the Arctic that bring cold air south. Climate change could make these events more frequent.
People living in run-down, inner city apartments, like these in Cairo, are at risk of heat-stress health problems.
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The number of people dying due to climate-led changes in the environment are increasing and the poorest populations remain the hardest hit.
Parts of Australia have broken multiple heat records over the past week.
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Much of Australia is sweltering due to a high pressure system parked over the Tasman Sea – and there’s no sign it’s moving any time soon.
Heavy snow in Washington, DC, is an example of “weather” - not “climate”.
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At a very simple level, “weather” refers to day-to-day conditions. “Climate” describes the average over many years.
Queensland’s ‘unprecedented’ bushfires were part of a year of extremes.
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2018 was Australia’s third warmest year on record, as the NSW drought dragged into another year.