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Live Science Today: Monte Verde controversy and heatwave lashes the WestDaily Roundup Friday, March 20, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.
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Massive 'heat dome' is bringing 'extremely dangerous' temperatures to the eastern half of the USWeather forecasters have warned of extreme and dangerous temperatures as a major heat wave sweeps across the central and eastern U.S. states.
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Ancient civilizations knew how to keep cool in deadly heat. We need to resurrect that lost knowledge now.Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It's time to get that knowledge back.
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Earth's weather is getting weirder. Here's why.We take a look at the apparent uptick in weird weather events and discuss the possible causes with leading climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.
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'The last 12 months have broken records like never before': Earth exceeds 1.5 C warming every month for entire yearEvery month has broken the temperature record of the previous for the past 12 months, and the signs of climate breakdown are already here, a new analysis shows.
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Heat dome triggers record-breaking temperatures across US West CoastScorching temperatures up to 130 degrees Fahrenheit are expected across the U.S. West Coast in the coming days, as a heat dome hovers over the region.
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Mysterious, slow-spinning cloud 'cyclone' hugs the Iberian coastEarth from space This 2017 satellite photo shows an unusual cloud "cyclone" nestled up against the coastline of Spain and Portugal. Researchers are unsure what caused the strange structure's spin, but ocean eddies and an extreme heat wave likely played key roles.
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More than 10 billion snow crabs starved to death off the coast of Alaska. But why?A large population of snow crabs in the eastern Bering Sea collapsed after a marine heat wave in 2018 and 2019 that multiplied the crabs' caloric needs and drove them to starvation.
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This was the hottest summer ever recorded on EarthJune through August 2023 were the hottest three months ever recorded, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
