natural disasters
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A Stifling New Heat Wave Is Baking the U.S.
Well, apparently this is Hot Dome Summer.
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Scientists Detect Isolated Community of Microbes in Crater Left by Dino-Killing Asteroid
New research examines the rock-dwelling microbes that eventually returned to the spot where a 10 km-wide asteroid smashed into Earth some 66 million years ago, killing off most life on the planet.
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Those Who Wish Me Dead Is a Failure of a Film in a World on Fire
An Angelina Jolie wildfire movie is every disasterologist’s dream, but Those Who Wish Me Dead ignores our current nightmare. Instead of leaving us with a high from an action-packed Jolie film, we were left wondering why Hollywood isn’t doing more to help us through our collective anxieties in the midst of a pandemic and a…
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Unseasonable European Warmth Smashes All-Time February Temperature Records
Winter has receded in Europe this week. Temperature records are falling as unseasonably warm weather sweeps across the continent delivering an early spring thaw, even while neighbouring Russia is simultaneously going through a deep freeze.