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Twenty-five percent of the earth could see a permanent drought by 2050

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Nation of Change If Earth’s temperature goes up by 2 degrees Celsius by 2050, more than one-quarter of the world would live in a state of drought. Story here. Parched ground in the southern US. 2011. Photo by Aljazeera English.

'Bomb Cyclone' Forecast to Hit East Coast. (US & Canada)

LIVE SCI=NCE Just when you thought the weather couldn't get worse, the Washington Post hits us with "bomb cyclone." That's right, forecasters suggest this "bomb" will make the U.S. East Coast unbearable for many. Story here.

Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters on Climate Change

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SCIENTIFIC   AMERICAN Hurricane Sandy - a Pexels photo. Extreme event attribution is one of the most rapidly expanding areas of climate science. STORY HERE.

A Dreadful Year-- Farewell 2017!

WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE The year we are leaving has been disastrous …  Literally  ... STORY HERE.

Surprising revelations about Canada's ice age past. What do they tell us about the present?

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE Western Canada shed its icy cover a thousand years earlier than previously thought, and the circumstances of the ancient glacial retreat can help understand present-day climate patterns. A new study provides the new glacial retreat timeline based on an analysis of moraine samples. Researchers collected samples of deposits that formed after the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which covered large portions of western Canada, retreated. Using beryllium isotopes to date the samples, the authors found that the CIS may have in fact been largely melted by 14,000 years ago, while newer, smaller alpine glaciers sprung up in pockets between the newly-bared mountain peaks.  Researchers also used simulations to show how warm temperatures during the late Pleistocene era contributed to CIS's early retreat, which had, in turn, contributed to a significant rise in sea level at the time. According to the authors, CIS response to abrupt climate change could be a model for the

Ice Loss and the Polar Vortex: How a Warming Arctic Fuels Cold Snaps

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 inside climate  news The loss of sea ice may be weakening the polar vortex, allowing cold blasts to dip south from the Arctic, across North America, Europe and Russia, a new study says. Story here. A country road in Manitoba. PinP photo.