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When the weather is extreme, is climate change to blame?

When the weather is extreme, is climate change to blame?

While it's difficult to attribute individual events to climate change, scientists say global warming makes extreme weather more common.

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Death toll from Greek wildfire reaches 91 as village grieves

Fire officials in Greece raised the death toll from a wildfire that raged through a coastal area east of Athens to 91 and reported that 25 people were missing Sunday, six days after Europe's deadliest forest fire in more than a century.
by Associated Press

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Hope grows as deadly northern California blaze slows down

Hope grows as deadly northern California blaze slows down

The deadly northern California wildfire that has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes burned virtually unchecked Sunday as fire crews surveyed a small town that was reduced to an ashy moonscape of blackened trees and smoldering rubble.
by Associated Press

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Experts say urban sprawl, climate change are increasing risk of major wildfires

Experts say urban sprawl, climate change are increasing risk of major wildfires

A fire that started in a rural community in northern California underscored a new reality in the state when days later it suddenly roared through neighborhoods on the edge of the city of Redding: Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to wildfires.
by Associated Press

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Pilot dies in central Minnesota plane crash

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office reported that it received several 911 calls just before 7:30 p.m. about a plane crash about 3 miles west of Alexandria.
by MPR News Staff

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2 children, great-grandmother perish in California wildfire

2 children, great-grandmother perish in California wildfire

The death count from a rapidly growing northern California wildfire rose to five Saturday after two young children and their great-grandmother who had been unaccounted for were confirmed dead.
by Associated Press

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'Terrifying' tornadoes of flame burn California city; 2 dead

'Terrifying' tornadoes of flame burn California city; 2 dead

A wildfire that roared with little warning into a Northern California city claimed two lives as thousands of people scrambled to escape before the walls of flames descended from forested hills onto their neighborhoods, officials said Friday.
by The Associated Press

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NTSB: Recordings show change in weather before boat sank

NTSB: Recordings show change in weather before boat sank

Video and audio recordings from a fatal tourist boat accident in Missouri show that the lake went from calm to deadly dangerous in a matter of minutes, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.
by The Associated Press

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