In case you weren't sure what climate change looks like, here's a preview: It looks like tens of millions people displaced from their homes due to climate- and weather-related events each year.
The dramatic images resulting from this week's floods in the Midwest are, in a way, a welcome sight — six months ago, the region was wracked by drought. That extreme see-sawing is close to what some climate change models predict.
London Mills, Illinois is being evacuated after flooding turned from bad to worse on Thursday. No, we're not talking about a few blocks of the town. Police are ordering the entire town out their homes.
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With all the fake photos going around and all the unbelievable damage, it's hard to decipher the real from the Photoshopped.
Just when we thought Tropical Storm Isaac was going to dissipate peacefully into much-needed rain for the central United States, news broke on Thursday that a dam was failing and 50,000 people would be evacuated on the Louisiana-Mississippi border.
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Flash flooding killed at least 436 people after Tropical Storm Washi slammed into the island of Sendong, and another 400 remain missing.
After Lee, towns in Pennsylvania question previous efforts to control rivers
Minot, population 40,000, evacuated in advance, including 100 animals from its zoo
If flooding rises 18 more inches, Nebraska's Cooper Nuclear Plant will shut down
The Army blasted an 11,000 ft hole in the levee to divert flood water
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