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Climate change could push at least 5.9 million more children and young people in Latin America and the Caribbean into poverty by 2030 unless governments act now.
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Climate change that has driven scorching temperatures and dwindling rainfall made massive wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus this summer burn much more fiercely, said a new study released Thursday.
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Particles are small enough to burrow into lungs, says report, with health impacts ‘more substantial than we realize’.
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Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout.
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Mexico's jaguar population has increased significantly in recent years but the largest feline in the Americas is still in danger of extinction, said a Mexican advocacy group that released a national census of the animals on Wednesday.
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Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find.
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Extreme rainfall across swathes of China caused over 16 billion yuan ($2.24 billion) in road damage, the transport ministry said on Wednesday, highlighting how climate risks are placing additional pressure on the ailing economy's public purse.
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Brazil's methane emissions increased 6% between 2020 and 2023, when the world's largest beef exporter released 21.1 million tons of the potent greenhouse gas, its second-highest level ever.
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Thinktank predicts wider inequality gap and calls for revised policies to tackle flying and excess private car use.
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The urban heat island effect describes the way urban areas get significantly warmer than the surrounding rural or suburban areas. There are a number of reasons why this occurs, although it can mostly be boiled down to the fact that there are fewer green spaces containing plants that cool off the surrounding air by evapotranspiration and more buildings and roads, which all have a tendency to hold more heat from the sun and keep the city warmer.
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