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Chicago zoo took polar bear indoors to keep warm
All 50 of America’s states recorded temperatures below freezing Tuesday. It was so cold even the polar bear at Chicago zoo spent most of the day indoors.
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On Getting Naked in Antarctica
Stuck at the South Pole during its coldest, darkest season? Find a sauna, grab some bunny boots, and join the most exclusive club in the world.
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So What's the Deal with the Polar Vortex?
While the cold temperatures have been unusual and even deadly, climate data shows that intense cold such as this event is now occurring far less frequently in the continental U.S. than it used to. This is largely related to winter warming trends due to manmade global warming and natural climate variability.
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Top 10 facts you might not know about extreme weather
Just a month ago, scientists announced that they'd found the coldest place on Earth: a high ridge in the East Antarctic Plateau where it was minus 136 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Genesee County,Michigan is epicenter of strange and extreme weather
While other parts of the state, sometimes the entire Midwest or more, are impacted by much of these weather events, the Genesee County area seems to have gotten the worst of much of it.
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Death Dust
Every year, there are some hundred and fifty cases of coccidioidomycosis, otherwise known as valley fever, or cocci, a disease caused by inhaling the microscopic spores of Coccidioides immitis, a soil-dwelling fungus found in Bakersfield, California. Cocci is endemic to the desert Southwest and to the semi-arid parts of Central and South America. Digging stirs it up, and dry, hot windy conditions, a regional feature intensified by climate change, disperse it.
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Awe-Inspiring Skies, Captured by an Extreme Storm Chaser
Mike Hollingshead appears to be blessed (or cursed?) when it comes to finding the most extreme weather in America’s heartland. While luck is certainly part of it, he says it's mostly just a lot of hard work and thousands and thousands of miles of driving.
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13 dead, 40,000 displaced in floods in Indonesia's North Sulawesi
Severe floods in northern Indonesia have left at least 13 people dead and driven tens of thousands of others from their homes in recent days.
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California drought emergency declared by Gov. Jerry Brown
Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday officially declared that California is in a drought emergency, as the state struggled with the lowest-levels of rainfall in its 153-year history, reservoirs were at low levels and firefighters remained on high alert.
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El Ninos Could Double as the Pacific Warms
Twice as many of nature’s troublesome children, the El Niños, could arrive to cause havoc in the coming century.
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The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938
In Upper Michigan's Storm of the Century in 1938, some snow drifts reached the level of utility poles.
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Extreme weather wreaks havoc on global food crops
Volatile weather around the world is taking farmers on a wild ride.
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Persistent below-zero temps visit Midwest again
Arctic air will bring freezing temperatures from Kentucky to Minnesota.
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The Big Icy: Deep freeze stretches all the way to Gulf Coast
The Deep South will plunge into a deep freeze again this week, this time with ice and snow expected to fall all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Counterpoint: Why days off due to extreme cold are not 'silly'
It seems that some people are taking issue with all these “silly days off” from school because of the cold, including a recent letter writer who described them that way in noting that they give children the opportunity to fill the shopping centers (“Cold weather, hot retail: The impact of no school,” Jan
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January rainfall breaks records
Early figures suggest parts of England have had their wettest January since records began more than 100 years ago.
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Romania under extreme weather alert with no let up in blizzards
The extreme weather conditions battering the south east of Romania have not eased. In Bucharest transport links were paralysed. Authorities said 160 trains were cancelled. Schools have remained shut and over 5,000 power failures have been reported. The port of Contanta has been closed due to the storms. Weather forecasters have warned there is more to come.
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That Snow Down South Is Fake, Say Conspiracy Theorists
The government and/or terrorists must have dumped fake snow on the South as a chemical attack.
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Cloncurry: A town in the Queensland outback that is so dry it may have to be abandoned
They breed them tough in outback Queensland, where residents of one small town gripped by drought are contemplating radical measures should their water supplies run out: a mass evacuation.
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New climate hubs aim to help communities cope with extreme weather
Aiming to help rural communities deal with climate change, the Obama administration is creating seven regional “climate hubs”