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Can Ancient Ruins Be Protected From Wildfires? Greece Is Trying.

Par : Motoko Rich and Niki Kitsantonis
As blazes surge across Europe, the country is making a trade-off to protect its heritage by fireproofing sites at the risk of spoiling the surrounding landscape.

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A newly constructed emergency access road at the archaeological site of Mystras, southern Greece, in July.
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Coral Reefs Are Running Out of Time to Recover, Research Finds

Par : Quinn Glabicki
Rising sea temperatures mean reefs don’t have enough time to bounce back between intense heat waves, a new report warns.

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Bleaching corals at Looe Key Reef off Florida in 2023.
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Search Continues for 2,400 Missing in Nepal Floods Amid ‘Immense’ Devastation

Par : Binod Ghimire and Mujib Mashal
As rescue efforts entered their fourth day, the scale of destruction came into focus, signaling a daunting recovery for the vulnerable nation.

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Damaged buildings in Devighat, a town in the Nuwakot district of Nepal that was devastated by Wednesday’s flash flood, on Friday.
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As Deadly Flash Flooding Batters Nepal, Some Fear ‘the Entire Himalayas Are Melting’

Par : Finn-Olaf Jones
A glacier unleashed a deadly flood earlier this week. For local trekking guides and climbers, the mountains were already changing.

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Homes were heavily damaged and partially buried in thick mud and debris after a catastrophic flash flood in the Devighat area of Nuwakot district in Nepal on Wednesday.
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A Melting Glacier in Nepal Was a Time Bomb. There Are More to Come.

Par : Jason Gulley
A geologist reflects on the disaster and explains why rapid warming will make deadly glacial floods far more common.

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A researcher paddled an inflatable kayak equipped with sonar to measure the depths of a meltwater lake on the Ngozumpa Glacier in Nepal last year.
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Climate Change Raises Risk of Disasters Like Nepal Floods

Par : Maxine Joselow and Leo Sands
Glaciers and permafrost in the Himalayas are melting faster as temperatures rise, though scientists are still studying the exact causes of this week’s landslide.

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Mud-laden water and debris surges through the widened channel of the Bhotekoshi River in the northern Rasuwa district of Nepal, on Thursday.
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Photos: A Deadly Flood Tears Through Nepal and Tibet

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An ice avalanche that started high in the Himalayas tumbled thousands of feet, releasing vast amounts of energy that pulverized the ice into a significant volume of floodwater.

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An aerial view on Thursday of buildings partly submerged in muddy water along a riverside after a flash flood at Trishuli Bazaar in the Nuwakot district of Nepal.
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West Point Climate Professor Says He Was Fired for Refusing to ‘Defy Science’

Par : Michael C. Bender and Greg Jaffe
Dr. Adam Kalkstein is suing the U. S. Military Academy, where he was a professor of geography and the only climate scientist, after being fired.

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Cadets walking near Pershing Barracks at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2014. A West Point climate professor says he was fired for refusing to “defy science.”
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Eight Dead, Hundreds Missing as Floods Sweep Away Villages in Nepal

Par : Binod Ghimire
A wall of water swept down a Himalayan river valley shared between Nepal and the Chinese territory of Tibet.

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Residents looking at houses partially submerged in muddy water after flash floods at Trishuli Bazar in Nepal’s Nuwakot district on Wednesday.
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England’s Ancient Trees Are Dying in the Heat

Par : Claire Moses
Extreme temperatures and drought are adding to the stress on oak trees that have lived for hundreds of years and play a key role in the national imagination.

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The Major Oak at Sherwood Forest Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire, England, in May.
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Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic

Par : Zane Irwin · Lucía Cholakian Herrera and Sebastián López Brach
Ebola virus, hantavirus and the pathogen that causes Covid-19 likely jumped from animals to humans. So do these viruses — and scientists say climate change is speeding their spread.

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Preparing a dose of the Candid #1 vaccine against Argentine hemorrhagic fever at Carrasco Hospital in Rosario, Argentina.
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