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A road sign in Death Valley warning of extreme heat

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Death Valley may have just had the hottest recorded midnight ever

Between 12am and 1am on 17 July, a weather station in Death Valley, California measured temperatures of 48.9°C (120°F). If confirmed it would be the hottest recorded temperature at that time

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Blondet Eliot/ABACA/Shutterstock (13625754c) ? The LINE ? exposition by NEOM in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on November 15, 2022. The Line Expo - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - 15 Nov 2022

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Does oil-rich Saudi Arabia really want to mend its ways and go green?

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Climate change is turning snow to rain and raising risk of floods

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Record-setting heatwave bakes US South and Mexico

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Aklima Parvin (19) keeps har face covered as she stands in a boat stranded on a mud flat. She faces discrimination due to her skin discolouration and pigmentation. She stopped going to college and spends her days alone since many of her friends are now married and have left the area.

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Revealing images from the front line of climate change in Bangladesh

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Striking panoramic seascape view on a rocky Atlantic Ocean Coast during a vibrant sunset. Taken at Crow Head, North Twillingate Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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North Atlantic Ocean has reached record-high surface temperatures

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Extreme rainfall could lead to 'big disaster' for rice yield in China

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TOPSHOT - Aerial view of homes submerged under flood waters from the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Jackson, Kentucky, on July 28, 2022. - Flash flooding caused by torrential rains has killed at least eight people in eastern Kentucky and left some residents stranded on rooftops and in trees, the governor of the south-central US state said Thursday. (Photo by LEANDRO LOZADA / AFP) (Photo by LEANDRO LOZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Once-a-century extreme precipitation could occur every 30 years in US

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Norway's Svalbard archipelago viewed from a satellite

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2022 was Europe’s hottest summer but warmer years are likely to come

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Climate change may drive more hurricanes towards the US east coast

Warming in the eastern Pacific Ocean may change wind patterns above the Gulf of Mexico, leading to more hurricanes making landfall in the eastern US

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Tropical cyclone Freddy may be longest on record after lasting 32 days

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Do back-to-back disasters show first climate tipping point is upon us?

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Mangroves near Chinese cities can reduce storm surges by over 2 metres

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Rare triple-dip La Niña is mostly to blame for South America's drought

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