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Opinion:

¶ “It’s not just Harvey: August marked by deadly floods around world” • Severe floods around the world are washing through cities and villages, sweeping away homes and leaving a deadly toll. Extensive flooding in Sierra Leone, Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, in addition to Texas, raising questions about what role climate change is playing. [CNN]

Flooding in Mumbai

¶ “The Week the Earth Stood Still” • When normally sober scientists start draining the barrel of awful superlatives to describe a summer day off the Gulf Coast, it’s time to pay attention. And today, the smartest military men count the global insecurity and chaos of climate change as an existential threat on a par with nuclear disaster. [New York Times]

World:

¶ Siem Offshore Contractors installation support vessel Siem Moxie has started work at Statoil’s 30-MW Hywind floating wind farm off Scotland.  The vessel arrived…