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Flood waters surrounding the Eiffel tower

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What's causing the devastating floods in France and Germany?

Unusual air currents are behind the torrential rains falling on Europe, but climate change may play a role, too

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Illustration with calligraphy top and bottom showing two medieval armies facing off

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Mongol hordes gave up on conquering Europe due to wet weather

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Rainclouds roll in over a field

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Rain spawns more rain when it falls on ploughed land

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A blue glow in the clouds, as seen from the window of the ISS

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Upside-down lightning and mystery blue glimpses caught on film

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A US weather forecaster standing in front of a weather map

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Climate change has been kind to Americans - but it won't last

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clouds

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Rain makers: How high-flying bacteria could control the clouds

Features

Many of world’s lakes are vanishing and some may be gone forever

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Many of world’s lakes are vanishing and some may be gone forever

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Houses on Fiji flattened by cyclone Winston with debris everywhere

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Record global temperatures bring strongest ever cyclone to Fiji

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Building a new sea wall in the Queens borough of New York City, one year after Hurricane Sandy devastated much of the area with severe flooding and wind damage. It's just a pic of some workers and construction equipment with sea visible in the background

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Why even catastrophic events can’t change attitudes to climate

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A flying drone

Technology

Robot weather forecasters drop sensors on storms from above

Drones that can collect valuable weather data on their own could deliver the daily forecast during severe storms

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Feedback: a doggy guide to the depth of snowdrifts

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South England's 2014 floods made more likely by climate change

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US east coast snowstorms linked to slowdown of Atlantic current

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El Niño means glaciers in the Andes are melting at record rates

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