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What preparing for an asteroid strike teaches us about climate change

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics

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2HAJ7KN This way to experience the impact - sign on the road to Meteor Crater, Northern Arizona, USA

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If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?

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If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?

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Hospital hit by Hurricane Milton gets system to grab water from air

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Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days

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2XG090B This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken at 4:16 p.m. EDT on Friday, July 5, 2024, and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Beryl over Mexico?s Yucatan Peninsula. Texas officials urged coastal residents to prepare as the storm moves toward the Gulf of Mexico. (NOAA via AP)

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Hurricane forecasts are improving – but big misses are still possible

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Seaweed could save a billion people from famine after a nuclear war

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Huge earthquake shook Seattle 1100 years ago and it could happen again

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Climate change is turning snow to rain and raising risk of floods

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Ukraine Kakhovka dam explosion: Flooding is devastating wildlife

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An emaciated cow stands at the bottom of the water pan that has been dried up for 4 months in Iresteno, a bordering town with Ethiopia, on September 1, 2022. - The devastating Horn of Africa drought is set to get even worse with a fifth consecutive failed rainy season, the UN's weather agency forecasted, fearing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are already going through their worst drought for 40 years and another poor rainy season is now highly likely, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Horn of Africa drought is set to become the region’s worst on record

A sixth failed rainy season would deepen the long-term drought in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia that has contributed to a devastating food crisis

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2ND5P9N WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This video screenshot released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the site of a derailed freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, the United States. About 50 Norfolk Southern freight train cars derailed on the night of Feb. 3 in East Palestine, a town of 4,800 residents near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, due to a mechanical problem on an axle of one of the vehicles. There were a total of 20 hazardous material cars in the train consist, 10 of which derailed, according to the NTSB, a U.S. government agency responsible f

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Ohio train derailment killed more than 40,000 aquatic animals

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A mangrove forest in Shenzhen Bay, China

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Mangroves near Chinese cities can reduce storm surges by over 2 metres

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An aerial view of the derailment in Ohio on 8 February

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Ohio train derailment: What we know about the toxic chemical spill

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Residents work to extinguish a wildfire in Chile

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Wildfires burning in Chile are among the deadliest in country's record

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