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A bomb cyclone dumped snow across the Northeast in January 2018 as well. Here, a man walks through the streets of Boston as snow falls from the massive winter storm on Jan. 4, 2018 in Boston.

'Bomb cyclone' set to bring blizzards and hurricane-force winds to the Northeast on Friday: Here's why.

By Cameron Duke published

A 'bomb cyclone' is expected to bring strong winds and dump inches of snow on the U.S. Northeast on Friday and Saturday.

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Geoengineering Earth climate

Geoengineering: Can we control the weather?

By Ailsa Harvey published

Reference Geoengineering is the use of technology to alter Earth's climate. This can take place on Earth or in space

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The "wildfires" in this image are actually Orion's Flame Nebula and its surroundings captured in radio waves. The image was taken with the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), located in Chile's Atacama Desert.

'Cosmic wildfires' burn bright in new photo of the Flame Nebula

By Stephanie Pappas published

A fiery new photograph of the Flame Nebula depicts the emissions from brand-new stars, burning through space like cosmic wildfires.

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In this aerial view of Mayfield, Kentucky, homes are shown badly destroyed after a tornado ripped through the area overnight Friday, Dec. 10, 2021.

How the 'deadly December tornado' carved a 250-mile path through 4 states

By Jeanna Bryner published

The death toll in Kentucky could exceed 70 from the record-breaking tornado.

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Dinosaurs attempt to flee a wildfire on Antarctica during the late Cretaceous.

Wildfires burned Antarctica 75 million years ago, charcoal remnants reveal

By Laura Geggel published

Antarctica was warmer during the late Cretaceous period, a time when wildfire blazed through the region.

Wildfires
A bomb cyclone has merged with a Category 5 "atmospheric river" — giant flowing trains of moist air in the sky — and is dropping lots of precipitation across Northern California.

A 'bomb cyclone' is battering much of California

By Elizabeth Howell published

A "bomb cyclone" in the Pacific is dumping extreme rain and several feet of snow on California.

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A rare sandstorm swept across northern São Paulo on Sept. 26.

'Mad Max'-like dust storm envelops Brazilian city in cloud of doom

By Mindy Weisberger published

Unusually hot and dry conditions fueled a dust cloud and birthed a rare sandstorm of massive proportions.

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The GeoEye-1 satellite captured this image of flooding in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Sept. 2, 2021.

Satellite images show extreme flooding in New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida

By Chelsea Gohd published

The epic storm that swept across the eastern United States this week hit New Jersey so hard that satellites saw the damage from space.

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A firefighter tackles a blaze from the Caldor fire.

Photos: Devastating Caldor wildfire threatens Lake Tahoe

By Live Science Staff published

The devastating wildfires are closing in on South Lake Tahoe resort, causing thousands of people to flee.

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The massive Hurricane Ida is easily visible on Earth from 1 million miles away as seen by NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory in orbit at a stable Lagrange point on Aug. 29, 2021 as the storm made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm.

See Hurricane Ida from 1 million miles away in this NOAA satellite view

By Tariq Malik published

The sheer size of Hurricane Ida when it made landfall on Sunday was clearly visible from a NOAA satellite 1 million miles away.

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