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Southern Brazil is preparing itself for another potential storm, as the region continues to recover from the devastating impact of a deadly cyclone that struck just last week. The Brazilian state of Santa Catarina was particularly hard-hit, with severe damage to infrastructure and loss of life as a result of the cyclone’s destructive forces. Authorities are closely monitoring the weather ...

The collapse of Canada’s largest ice sheet, the 4,000 year old Milne ice shelf, should be setting off alarm bells everywhere. Our world is fast losing the air conditioner that stabilizes the whole global climate system: Arctic ice.  As 43% of the ice sheet broke into pieces at the end of July, Tropical Storm Isaias became the earliest ninth named storm on record. Isaias proceeded to hammer the Caribbean, U.S. East Coast and Southern Canada with rain and fierce winds, killing eleven and leaving millions without ...