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GHAZIABAD, INDIA - JUNE 29: Commuters wade through a waterlogged road during monsoon rainfall at wave city NH9 on June 29, 2024 in Ghaziabad, India. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts heavy to very heavy rainfall in Delhi over the next two days following the city's highest single-day downpour in 88 years on Friday. An 'orange alert' has been issued for Sunday and Monday due to the expected heavy rainfall. (Photo by Sakib Ali/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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Delhi suffers extreme weather whiplash as heat waves give way to record rain and deadly flash floods
The flowers on the false mermaid weed are the size of a pin head.
Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department
They thought this rare, tiny flower was extinct since WWI. Now it’s a symbol of hope
A boy reacts as he pours water on himself at a public well to cool down, amid the hot weather, at a densely populated area in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 16, 2024. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
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The world’s biggest capital cities are heating up – and Asia tops the charts
Dead Coral at Sombrero Reef.
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This mass bleaching event is the worst on record. Now scientists are hoping for hurricanes
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Video It’s so hot in DC, Lincoln’s wax head melted off 0:35
A red hot steel slabs passes through a rolling machine inside the hot strip mill unit at the Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in Rourkela district, Odisha, India, on Friday, June 21, 2019. India's annual steel consumption is close to 100 million tons and there are prospects for further growth from Prime Minister Narendra Modis push to build infrastructure. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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This technology could transform one of the world’s dirtiest industries. Experts say it’s way off pace
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The world’s future energy wars will be fought under the sea
Thwaites Glacier in western Antartica in 2019. A new study suggests that warm
Robert Larter
Scientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet ‘tipping point,’ warning future sea level rise may be underestimated
Cooling tower three with one and two in the background are seen at the nuclear reactor facility at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Friday, May 31, 2024, in Waynesboro, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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The Senate just passed a critical clean energy bill to pave the way for more nuclear
A coal picker carries coal from near an open cast mining site on the outskirts of Dhanbad on July 6, 2023. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP) (Photo by MONEY SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Fossil fuel use and emissions hit record highs as world struggles with deadly heat, storms and fires
A view of the town of Symi, following the search for missing British TV doctor Michael Mosley on the island of Symi, Greece June 7, 2024. REUTERS/Lefteris Damianidis
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Why some scientists think extreme heat could be the reason people keep disappearing in Greece
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Video Bill Nye demonstrates why temperatures are above 90 degrees 2:09
PRESIDIO, TEXAS - MARCH 14: In an aerial view, the Rio Grande forms the U.S.-Mexico border at Big Bend Ranch State Park on March 14, 2024 near Presidio, Texas. The border between the two nations stretches nearly 2,000 miles, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and is marked by fences, deserts, mountains and the Rio Grande, which runs the entire length of Texas. The politics and controversies surrounding border and immigration issues have become dominant themes in the U.S. presidential election campaign. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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A water war is looming between Mexico and the US. Neither side will win
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The biggest winners of Biden’s green climate policies? Republicans.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Norbert Probst/imageBROKER/Shutterstock (9544920a) Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), dam with calf, Pacific Ocean, Rurutu, French Polynesia VARIOUS
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Pacific Indigenous leaders have a new plan to protect whales. Treat them as people
Mandatory Credit: Photo by KOSTAS TSIRONIS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14534026j) A visitor uses a handheld fan as tourists line up to exit the Acropolis during a heatwave, in Athens, Greece, 11 June 2024. The extended high pressure area over the coasts of Africa and central Mediterranean, which is accompanied by very warm air masses, is gradually extending eastward and will bring very high temperatures in Greece from 11 until 14 June. A circular of the Interior Ministry outlines how civil services will operate during the heatwave forecast in Greece by the National Meteorological Service. Tourists visit the Acropolis amid heatwave in Greece, Athens - 11 Jun 2024
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Greece shuts Acropolis to protect tourists from blistering heat