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Flooding in southern Brazil leaves at least 31 dead and 2,300 homeless
MUCUM, Brazil (AP) — Flooding from a cyclone in southern Brazil washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets in several cities, killing at least 31 people and leaving 2,300 homeless, authorities said Wednesday.
Sep 6, 2023 8:29 PM
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Brazil cyclone, Europe flooding, another Earth heat record: What to know in extreme weather now
Families perched atop houses pleading for help to escape the deadly flooding after a cyclone hammered southern Brazil , with the region's governor calling it “an absolutely out of the ordinary event.
Sep 6, 2023 8:24 PM
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As Africa Climate Summit promotes solar, off-grid power ramps up below the Sahara
NAIROBI (AP) — A walk through the busy business district of Mombasa Road in Nairobi, or even a rural community in Kisii County, Kenya, highlights something that's getting attention at the African Climate Summit in Nairobi this week — solar power that
Sep 6, 2023 7:50 PM
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Phoenix on track to set another heat record, this time for most daily highs at or above 110 degrees
PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix, already the hottest large city in America, is poised to set yet another heat record this weekend while confirmed heat-associated deaths are on track for a record of their own.
Sep 6, 2023 7:18 PM
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The Great Salt Lake is shrinking rapidly and Utah has failed to stop it, a new lawsuit says
Utah officials have pushed the Great Salt Lake to the brink of an ecological collapse because they allowed upstream water to be diverted for decades to farmers growing alfalfa, hay and other crops, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a coalitio
Sep 6, 2023 4:18 PM
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Deb Haaland, first Indigenous member of U.S. cabinet, meets counterparts in Ottawa
WASHINGTON — Canada and the United States are working together through "a period of healing" from the open wounds of residential schools and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says.
Sep 6, 2023 3:53 PM
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CO2 pipeline project denied key permit in South Dakota; another seeks second chance in North Dakota
South Dakota regulators on Wednesday denied a construction permit for a carbon dioxide pipeline project, one month after a North Dakota panel did the same to a similar project by another company.
Sep 6, 2023 3:33 PM
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Tropical Storm Lee strengthens into a hurricane as it churns across Atlantic toward Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Lee strengthened into a hurricane on Wednesday as it churned through the open waters of the Atlantic on a path that would take it near the northeast Caribbean.
Sep 6, 2023 3:09 PM
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This summer was a global record breaker for the highest heat ever measured, meteorologists say
GENEVA (AP) — Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Sep 6, 2023 2:32 PM
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Schools dismiss early, teach online as blast of heat hits northeastern US
A blast of late summer heat caused disruptions Wednesday for schools from Michigan to Virginia, with some districts dismissing students early and others holding classes online just days into the new academic year.
Sep 6, 2023 2:30 PM
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