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From Ice to Inferno: Alaska Issues Historic Heat Advisory

Lois Parshley / 17/06/2025

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the high glare of a summer evening in Fairbanks, Alaska, Ciara Santiago watched the mercury climb. A meteorologist at the National Weather Service office, she had the dubious honor of issuing the state’s first-ever official heat advisory as temperatures […]

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Anatomy of an Extinction

Jackie Flynn Mogensen / 21/04/2025

Late in September, as Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast, Wally Smith immediately thought of the salamanders. Of course, he fretted over the safety of his parents, brother, and extended family in the path of the storm in the north Georgia mountains, but he couldn’t help but worry about the amphibians in harm’s way, too. As […]

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