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Summer has brought another rash of extreme weather around the
world: relentless rain has caused flooding in Britain, India and Texas, and
record-breaking heat has led to wildfires in Greece and in Utah
demonstrating, once again, how severe weather and climate change can quickly
alter the landscape. But slower alterations in the earths natural features are
happening, too, as a result of human activity, and some of these are far more
drastic and lasting. The Op-Ed page asked four writers to report on how the
environment is faring in their parts of the globe. Here are their dispatches.
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Richard Beards
The Great Swiss Meltdown by Peter Stamm
Sunny California by Mike Madison
Dining in a Drought in Australia by Justin North
Israels Incredible Shrinking Sea by Haim Watzman
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