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Earth is no longer the only planet with confirmed geological activity

2016-09-28 17:00:58| Extremetech

Not only does our system's smallest planet turn out to host "Mercuryquakes" on a regular basis, it also appears to be shrinking!

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Hesitance to link some weather events to climate change 'no longer appropriate'

2016-09-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: The death and destruction from three days of relentless rain in Louisiana were just coming into grim focus when a team of international climate scientists started discussing whether they could quickly assess the downpour's link to climate change. By the time their study was published less than a month later, concluding that climate change made such an extreme rain event at least 40 percent more likely in the central Gulf Coast area in 2016 compared to 1900, the storm's staggering toll was clear....

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Global warming making Calif. wildfire season longer, more severe

2016-09-14 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

USA Today: As Southern California firefighters battled the Blue Cut Fire last month, there was nothing they could do to fend off an unfortunate reality: Global warming is already lengthening wildfire season and increasing the likelihood of extreme fires across the West. And conditions will only get worse in the coming decades. California just suffered through its hottest summer on record: The Golden State's average temperature from June through August was more than 3 degrees above the 20th century average,...

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