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Six spectacular ice phenomena to look out for this winter
From candy-cane snow rollers to fragile flowers, ice can take on magical, complex guises. Here are six that might catch your eye this winter
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New Scientist 60 years ago: Exploding bombs to fix the climate
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Weather forecasts from alien worlds are in – and it’s wild out there
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Lengthy warm spells and heavy rainfall are on the rise in the UK
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Cutting aerosol pollution may lessen extreme weather even with warming
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There’s little doubt we’re to blame for hurricanes getting worse
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Hurricane Florence: Mass evacuation of 1.5 million residents ordered
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Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years
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California’s worst wildfire in history is now the size of Los Angeles
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How many people did Hurricane Maria really kill in Puerto Rico?
The official death toll for Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico, is 64 people. A new analysis of death records finds that 1139 excess deaths occurred in the months after the storm
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Thousands dead or homeless after hydroelectric dam collapses in Laos
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China is building a huge weather-control machine 鈥� will it work?
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Most UK plants will flower at once in short 鈥榗ondensed spring鈥�
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Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe
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