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weather

Sunbathers on a beach

Environment

Lengthy warm spells and heavy rainfall are on the rise in the UK

Warm spells, tropical nights, and heavy rainfall are all on the rise in the UK, according to 60-years of data analysed by the Met Office

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Coal power plant

Environment

Cutting aerosol pollution may lessen extreme weather even with warming

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hurricane damage

Environment

There's little doubt we're to blame for hurricanes getting worse

Insight

Hurricane Florence, as seen from the International Space Station

Environment

Hurricane Florence: Mass evacuation of 1.5 million residents ordered

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Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years

Environment

Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years

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California's worst wildfire in history is now the size of Los Angeles

Earth

California's worst wildfire in history is now the size of Los Angeles

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The aftermath of Hurricane Maria

Humans

How many people did Hurricane Maria really kill in Puerto Rico?

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Thousands dead or homeless after hydroelectric dam collapses in Laos

Environment

Thousands dead or homeless after hydroelectric dam collapses in Laos

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rocket launch

Earth

China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?

Insight

Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

Earth

Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

Plants in the UK are set to blaze into flower virtually simultaneously, because flowering has been delayed two weeks by the unusually cold weather

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Earth

Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe

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Earth

Don't panic – homes in the UK won’t run out of gas for heating

Analysis

Earth

Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers

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Earth

Cyclone Gita hits New Zealand after hammering Tonga

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