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Rising seas threaten exodus of ‘biblical’ scale, warns Guterres
The UN Secretary-General warned Tuesday (14) that global warming could force a mass exodus "on a biblical scale" as people flee low-lying communities and called for legal frameworks to be implemented in preparation, especially for refugees
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Floods rage as weary California faces more rain
An unrelenting series of pounding storms over at least 11 days has left no part of California untouched — flooding towns from north to south, loading inland mountains with snow and transforming the often dry Los Angeles River into a raging…
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Most of Los Angeles County under flash flood warning as rains pound California
As California reeled from another bout of extremely wet weather on Monday (9) night, most of Los Angeles County was under a flash flood warning — an unusual twist for a dry, sunny place where the concern is typically a lack of water
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UN climate summit opens with warning against ‘backsliding’
The UN's COP27 climate summit kicked off Sunday (6) in Egypt with warnings against backsliding on efforts to cut emissions and calls for rich nations to compensate poor countries after a year of extreme weather disasters.
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New Zealand farmers protest livestock ‘burp and fart’ tax
Farmers quit their fields and hit the streets of New Zealand's cities Thursday (20) in countrywide protests against plans to tax greenhouse emissions from farm animals
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Early warning for all
Sri Lanka is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, ranking 4th, 2nd, and 6th on the Global Climate Vulnerability Index in 2018, 2019 and 2020 respectively
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The monsoon is becoming more extreme
Across South Asia, climate change is making the monsoon more erratic, less dependable and even dangerous, with more violent rainfall as well as worsening dry spells. For a region home to nearly one-quarter of the world’s population, the…
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‘Don’t flood the world today; don’t drown it tomorrow’, UN Chief implores leaders
As hundreds of Heads of State and Government prepare to fly into New York for the General Debate of the new General Assembly, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on them to bring hope to a fractured world, and increase efforts to…
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Failure to slow warming will set off climate ‘tipping points,’ scientists say
Failure to limit global warming to the targets set by international accords will most likely set off several climate “tipping points”, a team of scientists said Thursday (8), with irreversible effects including the collapse of the Greenland…
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The latest find as water levels fall: Dinosaur tracks in Texas
As a punishing drought grips parts of the world this summer, bodies of water have been drying up, exposing submerged World War II relics in Europe, several sets of human remains at Lake Mead outside Las Vegas, and even an entire village in…
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