On Saturday, the residents of Verkhoyansk, Russia, marked the first day of summer with 100 degree Fahrenheit temperatures. Not that they could enjoy it, really, as Verkhoyansk is in Siberia, hundreds of miles from the nearest beach. That’s much, much hotter than towns inside the Arctic circle usually get. That 100 degrees appears to be […]
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This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last summer, across southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay region—home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world—tens of thousands of fish washed up dead along riverbanks. Rivers running at temperatures above the threshold for salmon health were killing the
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Matthew Cappucci is an outstanding meteorologist and writer for the Washington Post Capital Weather Gang. Earlier this week, he wrote an excellent piece about the extremely cold temperatures in Alaska. A key message was even though parts of Alaska plummeted to colder than -50 deg F this week, the state is still on pace for
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The flooding in Venice this past week was extraordinary. According to my Forbes colleague Eric Mack, “On Tuesday, rains helped bring the seasonal high tides known as acqua alta to near record levels, just seven centimeters short of what was seen during the historic floods of 1966.” The mayor blamed climate change as did many
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