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A PLANE carrying terrified British tourists on a luxury Caribbean holiday came close to disaster when it landed on a runway suddenly flooded with water, mud and debris from a river that had just burst its banks.

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(TheWeatherSpace.com) – A massive storm system is moving out of the United States today, which went through Canada yesterday … carries with it the strongest jet stream now ever recorded that will cause two super storms …

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What the IPCC report says about extreme weather events | Carbon Brief http://t.co/NKpU8cFDd9 @HeatherPinnock @MetserviceJA

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The Health Of Antarctic Glaciers Relies On Salt Intake: NASA RedOrbit An intriguing link between sea ice conditions and the melting rate of Totten Glacier, the glacier in East Antarctica that discharges the most ice into the ocean, has been found…

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The Guardian Climate change models underestimate likely temperature rise, report shows The Guardian Report authors Steven Sherwood, Sandrine Bony and Jean-Louis Dufresne found climate models which show a low global temperature response to CO2…

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2013: the year in extreme weather
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I have selected five significant events. Inevitably, many stories have been missed out – in particular heatwaves (Australia had a very warm year) and floods in Canada and the US.

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As mangrove trees lose ground to deforestation and urban sprawl, one development seems to be giving them a boost: climate change. Fewer winter cold snaps have empowered them to conquer new territory around their …

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Smithsonian (blog) Six Things We Learned About Our Changing Climate in 2013 Smithsonian (blog) Over the past few years, average land surface temperatures have increased more slowly than in the past—prompting climate change deniers to seize upon…

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Solid Rain, a recent invention to emerge from Mexico, is able to absorb 500 times its size and may change the way farmers tend to their crops in dry locations.

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The state is enduring its driest year on record and while a drought emergency has not yet been officially declared, the U.S. National Drought Monitor shows that as of Dec. 24, nearly the entire state is gripped by severe to …

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