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Rats! More rodents are infesting cities as scientists say warmer temperatures mean more rat babies
Read full article: Rats! More rodents are infesting cities as scientists say warmer temperatures mean more rat babiesA new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington.
Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intense
Read full article: Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intenseA quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires.
Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warms
Read full article: Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warmsA new study finds that extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions.
Wall of ice the size of Rhode Island heading toward penguin-packed island off Antarctica
Read full article: Wall of ice the size of Rhode Island heading toward penguin-packed island off AntarcticaThe world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.
Earth breaks yearly heat record and lurches past dangerous warming threshold
Read full article: Earth breaks yearly heat record and lurches past dangerous warming thresholdGlobal temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold.
Why Greenland? Remote but resource-rich island occupies a key position in a warming world
Read full article: Why Greenland? Remote but resource-rich island occupies a key position in a warming worldGreenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all over the planet.
Why more frequent cold blasts could be coming from global warming
Read full article: Why more frequent cold blasts could be coming from global warmingFrigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit that is expected to provoke teeth-chattering but not be record-shattering.
A double dose of nasty winter is about to smack much of the US with snow, ice and biting cold
Read full article: A double dose of nasty winter is about to smack much of the US with snow, ice and biting coldMeteorologists forecast a strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States.
Mexico study's surprising finding: Killer heat hit harder for the young than the elderly
Read full article: Mexico study's surprising finding: Killer heat hit harder for the young than the elderlyA surprising study of temperature-related deaths in Mexico upends conventional thinking about what age group is hit hardest by heat.