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wind blown tree

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Where the wind blows: Mapping our wildest gusts

A new wind atlas will help turbines avoid the doldrums 鈥� and solve some of wind's enduring mysteries

Morteratsch and Pers Glacier in the Alps

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Plan to regrow receding Swiss glacier by blowing artificial snow

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Typhoon Haiyan鈥檚 electric spectacular in the eye of the storm

Sprite lightning

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Lightning round-up: The world鈥檚 weirdest electricity

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Bolt from the blue: Lightning doesn’t form like we thought

Pakistani town under flood water2010

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It just got harder to deny climate change drives extreme weather

Heatwaves hit harder

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Weather and climate extremes continue to set new records

Artic landscape with sea ice

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Forget snow, rain will become main precipitation in the Arctic

Most people support action on climate

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Most people don’t know climate change is entirely human-made

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Raindrops make soil bacteria take off and fly through air

When raindrops hit the ground, they throw microbes into the air in aerosols 鈥� with possible implications for the climate, agriculture and diseases

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Snow will melt more slowly in a warmer world 鈥� here鈥檚 why

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The pioneering snowflake photographs of a young obsessive

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Big cities warm up during the week as commuters flock in

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2016 confirmed as the hottest year on record