El Niño is here, and so is la lluvia (the rain). Already, the storms are triggering massive mud flows.
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How Rain Turns Dirt Into Disaster
A Brief History of Olympic Environmental Disasters
The Olympics bring the world together through sports. They also tear it apart through building ski runs, stadiums, and other athletic accoutrements.
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Map Shows Where Sea Level Rise Will Drown American Cities
A new study and accompanying interactive map show where locked in sea level rise is going to flood.
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Shell Didn’t Quit Alaska Out of the Goodness of Its Heart
After nine years and $7 billion, the Royal Dutch Shell oil company is abandoning its drilling rights in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska.
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Climate Change Is So Bad That the US and China Agree on It
Within 60 days of each other, Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping each released detailed plans to curb coal power plants. Has the world gone completely sane?
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10 Dead, Millions Evacuated After Massive Chile Earthquake
Chile's massive Thursday earthquake was the largest in the world for 2015, but so far death and destruction have been limited.
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The Chile Earthquake’s First Tsunami Waves Strike
A tide gauge less than 100 miles from the quake's epicenter has logged wave heights in excess of 14 feet.
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A Massive Quake Just Struck Off the Coast of Chile
An 8.3 moment magnitude quake struck northwest of Santiago.
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California’s Fire Problem Is Turning Into a Smoke Problem
Tens of thousands of acres in California are burning, releasing clouds of smoke that affect people across the state.
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California’s Fires Are Barely Contained—and Barely Started
The Valley Fire burned 61,000 acres in 17 hours, but it's neither the beginning nor the end of California's 2015 fire season.
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