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Air pollution from chemical plants made Hurricane Harvey worse

Much of the devastating flooding caused by 2017’s Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas may have been triggered by aerosol pollution released from nearby petrochemical plants

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2020 in review: Extreme weather seen around the world as climate warms

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Colorado River drought can be predicted by warming in the ocean

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Physics

Ball lightning is so strange it might just come from another dimension

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Life

The horn-like knobs on a giraffe’s head can be a deadly lightning rod

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Sea turtles carrying thermometers could improve hurricane forecasts

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Earth

Friederike Otto interview: Can we sue oil giants for extreme weather?

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Siberian heatwave was ‘impossible’ without human-made climate change

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We have recorded the biggest lightning flashes ever

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Earth

Lightning is killing our forests – and it’s only going to get worse

Lightning sparks wildfires, causes pollution and destroys some of the planet’s most important trees. Climate change could see its incidence - and impact - increase

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Physics

Cold war nuclear bomb tests changed rainfall patterns over the UK

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Huge volcanic eruption in 2018 was triggered by torrential rains

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Health

Will the spread of covid-19 be affected by changing seasons?

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The coronavirus pandemic could make weather forecasts less accurate

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