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* 24 May

**Based largely on government data, including data from [[NASA]], [[FEMA]] and others, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reports an exhaustive overview of recurrent [[List of natural disasters in the United States|natural disasters]] in the [[United States]] since 1900.<ref name="NYT-20180524">{{cite news |last=Chinoy |first=Sahil |title=The Places in the U.S. Where Disaster Strikes Again and Again |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/24/us/disasters-hurricanes-wildfires-storms.html |date=24 May 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=24 May 2018 }}</ref>

**Astronomers claim that the [[dwarf planet]] [[Pluto]] may have been [[Pluto#Origin|formed]] as a result of the agglomeration of numerous [[comet]]s and related [[Kuiper belt]] objects.<ref name="SP-20180524">{{cite web |last=Wall |first=Mike |title=Pluto May Have Formed from 1 Billion Comets |url=https://www.space.com/40687-pluto-formation-1-billion-comets.html |date=24 May 2018 |website=[[Space.com]] |access-date=24 May 2018 }}</ref><ref name="ARX-20180524">{{Cite journal|last1=Glein |first1=Christopher R. |last2=Waite, Jr |first2=J. Hunter Jr|title=Primordial N2 provides a cosmochemical explanation for the existence of Sputnik Planitia, Pluto |journal=Icarus |volume=313 |issue=2018 |pages=79–92 |year=2018 |arxiv=1805.09285|doi=10.1016/j.icarus.2018.05.007 |bibcode=2018Icar..313...79G |s2cid=102343522 }}</ref>

**Researchers at the University of Leeds report that climate change could increase [[arable land]] in [[Subarctic climate|boreal regions]] by 44% by the year 2100, while having a negative impact everywhere else.<ref>{{cite web |title=Climate change could increase arable land |url=https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/4237/climate_change_could_increase_arable_land |date=24 May 2018 |website=University of Leeds |access-date=25 May 2018 }}</ref>

* 30 May