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Cold and Warm Polar Water Mixing Slows

Mar 6, 2014
The process that sends cold surface Antarctic water to the warmer depths -- redistributing heat and storing carbon -- is now faltering, scientists say, because of climate change.

Extreme Weather Ravages Europe

Jul 25, 2007
Extreme weather is rolling across Europe, bringing suffering and death. While the north has had to cope with heavy rainfall and flooding, an estimated 500 people were killed in Hungary alone last week by a heat wave that has spread across the southeast.

Heat Wave Kills 140 Californians

Aug 11, 2006
About 140 Californians died last month from a severe heat wave, the most casualties since 1955, when air conditioning became widespread. Officials were left scrambling to explain the inordinately high number of deaths, unusual for a place where people are used to the summer heat.