U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This Is the Age of Weather Extremes

Consider these recent examples: Heat records were toppled fromNorway to Algeria last year. In parts of Australia, a drought has gone on so long that a child in kindergarten will hardly have seen rain in her lifetime. And California saw its most ruinous wildfires ever in 2018, triggering a bankruptcy filing this week by the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric.

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