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Caribbean Officials Warn Of Heavy Rains And Big Waves As Storm Erin Nears [1]

"Officials in the northern Caribbean warned Thursday of heavy rains and dangerous swells as Tropical Storm Erin approached the region."

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Source: AP [10], 08/15/2025
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Trump Relaxes Rules For Rocket Launches, Seeming To Benefit Musk And Bezos [11]

"Companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin may be able to forgo reviews required under National Environmental Policy Act" 

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SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [18]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [19]
Source: Guardian [20], 08/14/2025
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"Homeless and Burning in America’s Hottest City" [21]

"The sun was barely up when the three-person medical team pulled into the parking lot of a Phoenix soup kitchen, but the temperature was already around 90 degrees, on its way to 111."

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Source: NYTimes [23], 08/14/2025
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"Wildfires Fanned By Heatwave And Strong Winds Rage Across Europe" [24]

"Wildfires caused by arsonists or thunderstorms and fanned by a heatwave and strong winds wreaked destruction across southern Europe on Wednesday, burning homes and forcing thousands of residents and tourists to flee."

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Canada [26]
Europe [27]
Source: Reuters [28], 08/14/2025
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Tropical Storm Erin Likely To Become A Long-Lived Atlantic Hurricane [29]

"Tropical Storm Erin has begun what’s expected to be a week-plus oceanic journey across the North Atlantic. As it looks now, much of that trek will be as a potent hurricane that bears close watching."

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Source: Yale Climate Connections [30], 08/14/2025
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Juneau Asks Some Residents To Leave Area As Glacial Flooding Nears [31]

"Officials in Alaska’s capital city are asking residents to voluntarily evacuate from parts of the Mendenhall Valley ahead of an expected glacial flood this week."

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Source: Alaska Beacon [33], 08/13/2025
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"Explosion At US Steel Plant In Pennsylvania Leaves 2 Dead, 10 Injured" [34]

"An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh left two dead and sent at least 10 to hospitals Monday and heavily damaged the sprawling facility, officials said."

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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Source: AP [36], 08/13/2025
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"Green Groups Sue Trump Admin Over Report Downplaying Climate Damage" [37]

"Environmental advocates are suing the Trump administration over what they described as a secretive plan to undermine climate science."

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National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Hill [41], 08/13/2025
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Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill State’s Wildfire Risk Map [42]

"This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact."

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Journalism & Media [43]
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Northwest (OR WA) [44]
Source: ProPublica [45], 08/12/2025
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"Weather Tracker: Europe Braces For Another Heatwave With Highs Of 44C" [46]

"After a period of cooler weather, swaths of central and eastern Europe face another heatwave as hot air over south-western Europe pushes north-west."

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Europe [27]
Source: Guardian [47], 08/12/2025
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