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===== The year the rainforest dried up: how the climate crisis beached Brazil’s floating communities =====

[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2025/jan/22/amazon-rainforest-dried-up-how-climate-crisis-beached-brazil-floating-communities by OPEN Society foundations 22/1/25 The Guardian]

Some areas of the Amazon experienced their worst drought in 120 years in 2024. Brazilian rivers such as the Negro fell to their lowest levels on record, affecting more than 140,000 families for months.

===== How extreme rainfall in New Mexico is linked to wildfires =====

[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/11/how-extreme-rainfall-in-new-mexico-is-linked-to-wildfires by James Michelin 11/7/25 The Guardian]

In the town of Ruidoso, 35 homes were swept away and three people died. The National Weather Service attributed the extreme event to the wildfires that devastated the same area in 2024.

===== Experts issue dire warning over potential tipping point in home insurance market: 'Everything is on the line' =====

[https://www.yahoo.com/news/experts-issue-dire-warning-over-111555340.html by Kristen Lawrence 7/7/25 Yahoo!news]

As rising global temperatures lead to increasingly extreme weather events, such as wildfires, floods, and hurricanes, home insurance companies are either exiting certain markets or limiting their coverage.

===== Climate breakdown tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds =====

[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/09/europe-june-heatwave-study-climate-breakdown-tripled-death-toll by Ajit Niranjan 9/7/25 The Guardian]

Scientists estimate that high heat killed 2,300 people across 12 major cities as temperatures soared across Europe between 23 June and 2 July. They attributed 1,500 of the deaths to climate breakdown, which has heated the planet and made the worst extremes even hotter.

===== NASA data reveals concerning trend in weather patterns over past 5 years: 'The world isn't prepared' =====

[https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/nasa-grace-orbiter-extreme-weather-events-data/ by Yei Ling Ma 8/7/25 TCD]

NASA's GRACE orbiter (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) has provided researchers with key data on the planet's environmental changes over the years.

===== Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward =====

[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-out-tornado-alley-is-migrating-eastward/ by By Mark Fischetti, Matthew Twombly & Daniel P. Huffman 5/11/23 Scientific American]

Although tornadoes touch down in many places across the eastern half of the country, from the 1950s through the 1990s they struck most often in Tornado Alley, an oval area centered on northeastern Texas and south-central Oklahoma. More recently, that focus has shifted eastward by 400 to 500 miles. In the past decade or so tornadoes have become prevalent in eastern Missouri and Arkansas, western Tennessee and Kentucky, and northern Mississippi and Alabama—a new region of concentrated storms.1

===== Phoenix Roasts in Record-Breaking 110-Plus-Degree Heat, with No End in Sight =====

[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phoenix-roasts-in-record-breaking-110-plus-degree-heat-with-no-end-in-sight/ by Daniel Cusick 17/7/23 E&E News]

Several million heat-tolerant Arizonans spent the weekend in air-conditioned semi-darkness, drawing their curtains shut as temperatures soared to nearly 120 degrees in one of America's largest metro areas.

===== Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward =====

[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-out-tornado-alley-is-migrating-eastward/ by By Mark Fischetti, Matthew Twombly & Daniel P. Huffman 5/11/23 Scientific American]

Although tornadoes touch down in many places across the eastern half of the country, from the 1950s through the 1990s they struck most often in Tornado Alley, an oval area centered on northeastern Texas and south-central Oklahoma. More recently, that focus has shifted eastward by 400 to 500 miles. In the past decade or so tornadoes have become prevalent in eastern Missouri and Arkansas, western Tennessee and Kentucky, and northern Mississippi and Alabama—a new region of concentrated storms.1

===== Phoenix Roasts in Record-Breaking 110-Plus-Degree Heat, with No End in Sight =====

[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phoenix-roasts-in-record-breaking-110-plus-degree-heat-with-no-end-in-sight/ by Daniel Cusick 17/7/23 E&E News]

Several million heat-tolerant Arizonans spent the weekend in air-conditioned semi-darkness, drawing their curtains shut as temperatures soared to nearly 120 degrees in one of America's largest metro areas.

===== Severe weather hits the US hard as key forecast offices reel from Trump cuts =====

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/severe-weather-nws-trump-cuts by Eric Holthaus 1/6/25 The Guardian]

A brutal stretch of severe weather has taxed communities on the eastern fringes of tornado alley this spring and early summer, while harsh staffing cuts and budget restrictions have forced federal meteorologists to attempt to forecast the carnage with less data.

GettyImages-589690792 NPR Flash Floods.jpg| [https://apps.npr.org/ellicott-city/ AFTER THE WATER]

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+===== The year the rainforest dried up: how the climate crisis beached Brazil’s floating communities =====
+[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2025/jan/22/amazon-rainforest-dried-up-how-climate-crisis-beached-brazil-floating-communities by OPEN Society foundations 22/1/25 The Guardian]
+ Some areas of the Amazon experienced their worst drought in 120 years in 2024. Brazilian rivers such as the Negro fell to their lowest levels on record, affecting more than 140,000 families for months.
+===== How extreme rainfall in New Mexico is linked to wildfires =====
+[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/11/how-extreme-rainfall-in-new-mexico-is-linked-to-wildfires by James Michelin 11/7/25 The Guardian]
+ In the town of Ruidoso, 35 homes were swept away and three people died. The National Weather Service attributed the extreme event to the wildfires that devastated the same area in 2024.
+===== Experts issue dire warning over potential tipping point in home insurance market: 'Everything is on the line' =====
+[https://www.yahoo.com/news/experts-issue-dire-warning-over-111555340.html by Kristen Lawrence 7/7/25 Yahoo!news]
+ As rising global temperatures lead to increasingly extreme weather events, such as wildfires, floods, and hurricanes, home insurance companies are either exiting certain markets or limiting their coverage.
+===== Climate breakdown tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds =====
+[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/09/europe-june-heatwave-study-climate-breakdown-tripled-death-toll by Ajit Niranjan 9/7/25 The Guardian]
+ Scientists estimate that high heat killed 2,300 people across 12 major cities as temperatures soared across Europe between 23 June and 2 July. They attributed 1,500 of the deaths to climate breakdown, which has heated the planet and made the worst extremes even hotter.
+===== NASA data reveals concerning trend in weather patterns over past 5 years: 'The world isn't prepared' =====
+[https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/nasa-grace-orbiter-extreme-weather-events-data/ by Yei Ling Ma 8/7/25 TCD]
+ NASA's GRACE orbiter (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) has provided researchers with key data on the planet's environmental changes over the years.
+===== Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward =====
+[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-out-tornado-alley-is-migrating-eastward/ by By Mark Fischetti, Matthew Twombly & Daniel P. Huffman 5/11/23 Scientific American]
+ Although tornadoes touch down in many places across the eastern half of the country, from the 1950s through the 1990s they struck most often in Tornado Alley, an oval area centered on northeastern Texas and south-central Oklahoma. More recently, that focus has shifted eastward by 400 to 500 miles. In the past decade or so tornadoes have become prevalent in eastern Missouri and Arkansas, western Tennessee and Kentucky, and northern Mississippi and Alabama—a new region of concentrated storms.1
+===== Phoenix Roasts in Record-Breaking 110-Plus-Degree Heat, with No End in Sight =====
+[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phoenix-roasts-in-record-breaking-110-plus-degree-heat-with-no-end-in-sight/ by Daniel Cusick 17/7/23 E&E News]
+  Several million heat-tolerant Arizonans spent the weekend in air-conditioned semi-darkness, drawing their curtains shut as temperatures soared to nearly 120 degrees in one of America's largest metro areas.
+===== Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward =====
+[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-out-tornado-alley-is-migrating-eastward/ by By Mark Fischetti, Matthew Twombly & Daniel P. Huffman 5/11/23 Scientific American]
+ Although tornadoes touch down in many places across the eastern half of the country, from the 1950s through the 1990s they struck most often in Tornado Alley, an oval area centered on northeastern Texas and south-central Oklahoma. More recently, that focus has shifted eastward by 400 to 500 miles. In the past decade or so tornadoes have become prevalent in eastern Missouri and Arkansas, western Tennessee and Kentucky, and northern Mississippi and Alabama—a new region of concentrated storms.1
+===== Phoenix Roasts in Record-Breaking 110-Plus-Degree Heat, with No End in Sight =====
+[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phoenix-roasts-in-record-breaking-110-plus-degree-heat-with-no-end-in-sight/ by Daniel Cusick 17/7/23 E&E News]
+  Several million heat-tolerant Arizonans spent the weekend in air-conditioned semi-darkness, drawing their curtains shut as temperatures soared to nearly 120 degrees in one of America's largest metro areas.
+===== Severe weather hits the US hard as key forecast offices reel from Trump cuts =====
+[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/severe-weather-nws-trump-cuts by Eric Holthaus 1/6/25 The Guardian]
+ A brutal stretch of severe weather has taxed communities on the eastern fringes of tornado alley this spring and early summer, while harsh staffing cuts and budget restrictions have forced federal meteorologists to attempt to forecast the carnage with less data.
+<gallery mode="packed-hover">
 GettyImages-589690792 NPR Flash Floods.jpg| [https://apps.npr.org/ellicott-city/ AFTER THE WATER]
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