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MILWAUKEE (AP) — By beating Notre Dame last week, Michigan State got over a major emotional hurdle that was left over from last year’s lost season.
Next the Spartans have a chance to knock off a nationally ranked conference title contender and end the longest active winning streak in major college football at No. 9 Wisconsin […]

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Climate change may carry a higher risk of flooding than was previously thought, the journal Nature reports. Researchers say efforts to calculate flooding risk from climate change do not take into account the effect carbon dioxide (CO2) has on vegetation.
Higher atmospheric levels of this greenhouse gas reduce the ability of plants to suck […]

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This summer appears to have been the wettest since rainfall records began in 1914, according to provisional data from the UK’s Met Office.
Britain had 358.5mm of rain, just beating the 1956 record of 358.4mm.
The main reason for the high rainfall has been the unusually southerly position of the jet stream, a band of strong […]

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Flooding was a concern early Thursday in parts of the central Plains and upper Mississippi Valley as storms roll through, while the South baked and storms rumbled the Rockies.Early morning rain in the upper Mississippi Valley was to give way to a temporary dry period in the late morning before another wet spell spills into […]

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