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What is a recent climate related event or extreme weather event that's been on your mind? 

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What is a recent climate related event or extreme weather event that's been on your mind? 

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How to share a project with your teacher

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How to share a project with your teacher

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Step 1:
On the Projects screen, Click the "Add" (plus sign) icon in the "Sharing" column for the project.

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In the panel that opens, click the Share button under "Share with an inbox."

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Enter the inbox's name that your teacher provided to you. The inbox name will auto-complete as you begin to type so that you can select it from the list.

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Overview: Your teacher may ask you to share your project. This gives your teacher the ability to look at your work and send you helpful feedback. Your teacher will give you the inbox's name to type in when sharing your project.

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On the Projects screen, Click the "Add" (plus sign) icon in the "Sharing" column for the project.

In the panel that opens, click the Share button under "Share with an inbox."

Click Done. The panel updates with information about your shared project. Close the panel. An inbox icon appears in the "Sharing" column for the project. To edit the information, click on the inbox icon.

If you cannot find your teacher's inbox, ask your teacher for help. if your school district is using NoodleTools at more than one school, check "My User Profile" at the bottom of the blue panel on the left to make sure your school is correctly selected.

If your project is shared with the wrong inbox, you can still try again and add the correct inbox. Click "Share" again and enter the correct inbox's name. The recipient can remove your project if it was incorrectly shared with their inbox.

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How to share a project with your teacher

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Overview: Your teacher may ask you to share your project. This gives your teacher the ability to look at your work and send you helpful feedback. Your teacher will give you the inbox's name to type in when sharing your project. This artic...

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See the latest photo galleries and stories from the CNN Photo Desk.

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Reuters news in pictures: photos captured by award winning Reuters photojournalists from around the globe.

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CREW - Communities Responding to Extreme Weather

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CREW - Communities Responding to Extreme Weather

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Communities Responding to Extreme Weather

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Think about the topic you researched today, and complete the question in a post.

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What would happen if vulnerable populations had no access to clean water?

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SPRINGFIELD - Mayor Domenic Sarno declared a state of emergency in Springfield shortly after a break was spotted in a 36-inch high-pressure main in a wooded area off St. James Avenue.

"This is to avail ourselves of infrastructure repair money," he said at a press conference today. "It's a big job, it's going to cost millions of dollars. The area in question is very unstable."

He added, "Toilets are working fine, it's OK to shower, but don't ingest it in your mouth."

The Springfield Water and Sewer Commission issued a boil water order at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, followed by a Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency text alert message around 11 p.m.

To clarify why residents did not receive an alert until Tuesday evening, Sarno said city officials won't put out a statement before it's totally clear that they have to implement a boil water order.

The water main broke at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday as a result of downpours Monday night, Water and Sewer Commission Executive Director Joshua Schimmel said. About 5 to 10 million gallons of treated water flowed out of the system as a result of the break, Schimmel said.

"We average about 30 million gallons a day for Springfield in general," he said.

Director of the Department of Public Works Christopher Cignoli said the area around the break will need to be rebuilt.

"We're talking probably five, six, seven hundred feet of a stream channel culvert system," Cignoli said. "The drainage system was down about 10 plus feet on the ground. So you're dealing with almost 20 feet down to do our repairs."

He said the work on the long-term fix will take some time, and the area around the break will have to be stabilized before necessary repairs are made.

After the press conference, Cignoli told The Republican that the actual repairs are between two and five days away from starting, and the weather should not interfere with repairs.

He said he wanted to make sure that their system was stable from a flow and pressure standpoint to know how long they have to get it fixed before it starts to cause a problem. "We definitely need to get it done before winter," he said.

In the meantime, residents and customers of the Springfield Water and Sewer Commission have been advised not to use tap water without boiling it for at least one minute.

The boil water order extends to Ludlow, although its schools have been in session. The commission has customers in surrounding areas, too, such as Wilbraham.

"These customers are in our database and were contacted through our Everbridge or reverse 911 (call)," Schimmel said. "It's not thousands of customers. It's a handful and they were notified."

He said if someone drank any tap water prior to the alert going out, they should seek medical assistance if they began to feel unwell.

Fire Commissioner Bernard J. Calvi said the water systems are at normal pressure for firefighting.

"We have no safety concerns at this time and no additional danger to the community in terms of fire protection," Calvi said.

Health and Human Services Commissioner Helen Caulton-Harris said several locations across the city are distributing water bottles today.

Locations include the Raymond A. Jordan Senior Center, North End Senior Center, Indian Orchard Citizens Council, South End Community Center and Rebecca M. Johnson School, between 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Caulton-Harris emphasized that the water bottles are to be handed out to residents of Springfield only.

Director of Parks, Buildings and Management Patrick Sullivan said the facilities team will monitor other sites throughout the day. He also said that parents or guardians should advise children to stay out of the area where the break took place.

"It's a very large resource conservation area," he said. "We want everyone to stay out of this area, because it's dangerous right now."

Superintendent of Schools Daniel Warwick said the district hopes to reopen schools tomorrow.

"We're going to make a decision at a later time. We're going to make every effort to have school if possible," he said. "As we get word, we'll notify people. That could be as late as tomorrow morning."

Officials at the press conference said they will test the water for bacteria and hope to lift the order on Thursday morning.

At Baystate Medical Center

Heather Duggan, manager of public relations for Baystate Health issued a statement, said its medical centers are open for business, and that employees will continue to take steps to ensure the safety of patients and staff.

This includes all Baystate Health locations, including Baystate Medical Center, Baystate Children's Hospital and other Springfield-area medical practices.

"We are prepared for this type of event, with proper hygiene protocols," she said.

Duggan said staff members are using hand sanitizers for handwashing and using bottled water for drinking. Patients are also using bottled water for bathing.

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Springfield declares state of emergency over water main break

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A 36-inch water main broke around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.

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The glaciers melting and making ocean levels rise. 

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The glaciers melting and making ocean levels rise. 

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The heatwave has caused Springfield Public Schools to dismiss early.

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 hurricane lee that was supposedly headed our way 

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 hurricane lee that was supposedly headed our way 

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BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) - Atlantic storm Lee pummeled a large swath of New England and Maritime Canada with destructive winds, rough surf and torrential rains that toppled trees, flooded roadways and cut power to tens of thousands on Saturday. One person was killed in Maine when a tree limb fell on his vehicle.

The center of the sprawling post-tropical cyclone made landfall about 135 miles (215 kilometers) west of Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. That's about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Eastport, Maine. It had near-hurricane-strength winds of 70 mph (110 kph), though the storm was weakening as it headed north to New Brunswick and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Lee flooded coastal roads in Nova Scotia and took ferries out of service as it fanned anxiety in a region still reeling from wildfires and severe flooding this summer. The province's largest airport, Halifax Stanfield International, cancelled all flights.

"People are exhausted. ... It's so much in such a small time period," said Pam Lovelace, a councilor in Halifax.

The storm was so big that it caused power outages several hundred miles from its center. At midday Saturday, 11% of electricity customers in Maine lacked power, along with 27% of Nova Scotia, 8% of New Brunswick and 3% of Prince Edward Island.

Hurricane-force winds extended as far as 140 miles (220 kilometers) from Lee's center, with tropical storm-force winds extending as far as 320 miles (515 kilometers) - enough to cover all of Maine and much of Maritime Canada.

In the United States, a tropical storm warning remained in effect from Stonington, Maine, north to the U.S.-Canada border.

That included Bar Harbor, the touristy gateway to Acadia National Park, where a whale watch vessel broke free of its mooring and crashed ashore. Authorities worked to offload 1,800 gallons of diesel fuel to prevent it from spilling into the ocean.

A 51-year-old motorist in Searsport, Maine, died after a large tree limb fell on his vehicle Saturday on U.S. Highway 1 during a period of high winds, the first fatality attributed to the storm.

The tree limb brought down live power lines, and utility workers had to cut power before the man could be removed, said Police Chief Brian Lunt. The unidentified man died later at a hospital, Lunt said.

Storm surge of up to 3 feet (0.91 meters) was expected along coastal areas, accompanied by large and destructive waves, the hurricane center said.

The storm skirted some of the most waterlogged areas of Massachusetts that experienced severe flash flooding days earlier, when fast water washed out roads, caused sinkholes, damaged homes and flooded vehicles.

In eastern Maine, winds died down enough by late afternoon for utility workers to begin using their bucket trucks to make repairs. Both Central Maine Power and Versant Power had hundreds of workers, including out-of-state crews, to assist in the effort.

"At this point, the storm is resembling a nor'easter," said Sarah Thunberg, a National Weather Service meteorologist, referring to the fall and winter storms that often plague the region and are so named because their winds blow from the northeast. They typically have a much wider wind field than tropical systems, whose winds stay closer to a storm's center.

But the entire region has experienced an especially wet summer - it ranked second in the number of rainy days in Portland, Maine - and Lee's high winds toppled trees stressed by the rain-soaked ground in Maine, the nation's most heavily wooded state.

Cruise ships found refuge at berths in Portland, while lobstermen in Bar Harbor and elsewhere pulled traps from the water and hauled boats inland.

Billy Bob Faulkingham, House Republican leader of the Maine Legislature, and another lobsterman survived after their boat overturned while hauling traps ahead of the storm Friday, officials said.

The boat's emergency locator beacon alerted authorities, and the two clung to the hull until help arrived, said Winter Harbor Police Chief Danny Mitchell. The 42-foot boat sank.

"They're very lucky to be alive," Mitchell said.

Forecasters urged residents to stay home, but many ventured out anyway.

Betsy Follansbee and her husband, Fred, jogged to Higgins Beach in Scarborough, Maine, to watch surfers - some wearing helmets - paddling out to catch waves reaching 12 feet (3.6 meters). They were the biggest waves Follansbee has seen in her 10 years living there, she said.

"We're impressed that they're bold enough to try," Follansbee said.

On Maine's Bailey Island, a slender spit jutting into the Gulf of Maine, Ren Renton watched the ocean roil. "It comes and goes and takes what it wants, but hopefully not too much," she said.

Lee shared some characteristics with 2012's Superstorm Sandy. Both were once-strong hurricanes that became post-tropical cyclones - cyclonic storms that have lost most of their tropical characteristics - before landfall. Lee was not expected to be nearly as destructive as Sandy, which caused billions of dollars in damage and was blamed for dozens of deaths in New York and New Jersey.

Lee also isn't anywhere near as severe as the remnants of Hurricane Fiona, which a year ago washed houses into the ocean in eastern Canada, knocked out power to most of two provinces and swept a woman into the sea, said Canadian meteorologist Jill Maepea.

Destructive hurricanes are relatively rare so far north. The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 brought gusts as high as 186 mph (300 kph) and sustained winds of 121 mph (195 kph) at Massachusetts' Blue Hill Observatory. But there have been no storms that powerful in recent years.

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Sharp reported from Portland, Maine. Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists Robert Bumsted in Cape Elizabeth, Maine; Patrick Whittle in Portland, Maine; Michael Casey in Boston; Rio Yamat in Las Vegas; Mark Thiessen in Anchorage, Alaska; Rob Gillies in Toronto; and Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire.

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This story has been corrected to show that the Republican leader of the Maine Legislature is known as Billy Bob Faulkingham, not Bill Bob.

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Thousands without power and 1 dead after Atlantic storm Lee pummels New England and Maritime Canada

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Atlantic storm Lee has made landfall in Nova Scotia, Canada, at near-hurricane strength with sustained winds of 70 mph.

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glaciers are melting at a faster rate

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Rising sea levels are leading to higher storm surges and floods.

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Meet 6 Local Leaders Dedicated To Climate Protection

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From Fijian ocean floors to Mexican mountain tops, they're fighting the devastating consequences of climate change.

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It feels like it is hotter every year.

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Analysis: Is it actually hotter now than any time in the last 100,000 years?

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A paleoclimate scientist who studies temperatures of the past explains what we can confidently say about when Earth was last this hot.

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A lot of schools had to let school out early due to the massive heat week we had 1-2 weeks ago.

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Hurricane Lee that is "coming our way."

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https://www.wwlp.com/weather/weather-news/summer-rain-may-affect-when-we-see-fall-colors/

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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - Fall colors might be cut a bit short this year after a very rainy and unsettled summer.

As we settle into fall, we're seeing cooler weather and the leaves change colors. However, the adverse weather we saw a couple months ago might make this fall look a little different.

This summer had record amounts of rain, specifically in July but the effects go beyond flooding and ruining your barbecue. It's not as much the amount of rain as it is the intensity. Intense rain in short periods of time can cause stress to weak leaves and make them fall before we see them change colors.

While John Salas enjoys seeing the leaves change colors, he is hopeful for the future, "We go for fall foliage drives, mother nature has her own mind made up on when that's going to happen. So if it's not this year, its next year. So no, it doesn't make me upset because I know there's another opportunity."

While rain plays a large factor in seeing the leaves change color, it also attracts insects. Added moisture in the air and landscape make a great environment for bugs like mosquitos to stick around a little longer.

If you want to see the leaves change before it's too late, you can visit spots like Mohawk Trail State Forest or drive on northern parts of I-91.
Jack Wu joined the 22News Storm Team in July 2023. Follow Jack on X @the_jackwu and view his bio to see more of his work.

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Summer rain may affect when we see fall colors

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Fall colors might be cut a bit short this year after a very rainy and unsettled summer.

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Glaciers are melting much faster than expected, study finds | CNN

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A new study indicates that the speed of glacier melt has "doubled over the past two decades" - far faster than anticipated or previously measured.

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hurricane lee that was coming our way and it was said to cause lots of damage.

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hurricane lee that was coming our way and it was said to cause lots of damage.

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a recent climate change is the heat that started the fire not to long ago

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hurricane lee

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The forest fire in Canada caused. a part of the world to look orange and become very polluted

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Warming Set the Stage for Canada’s Record Fires, Study Finds

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Climate change has made hot, dry and windy conditions like those that fueled this year’s blazes at least twice as common as they would otherwise be.

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The weather whether rainy or snowy it been more severe every single year

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a recent weather related event that has been on my mind is the hurricanes that have been passing by the united states.

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Climate Protesters March on New York, Calling for End to Fossil Fuels

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Ahead of U.N. meetings this week, thousands gathered in Midtown to demand that President Biden and other world leaders stop new oil and gas drilling.

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australian wildfire season is expected to be worse in 2023 due to heightening heat rates which are causing dryer vegetation and low soil moisture

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I started watching the hurricane updates about hurricane Lee so it has been on my mind lately.

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See the likely path and wind arrival times for Lee.

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The volcanoes in Hawaii Kilauea leaving many without home.

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In the recent years many farmers haven't been able to get many crops/food because of climate change and weather. This year the farmers and land/crops have been hit majorly because of flooding, heat waves, temps, and more...

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A recent extreme weather events that's been on my mind has been the rapid weather changes in new England. We go from having 50 degrees with thunderstorms to having 90-degree heat waves in a week.