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    Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg says climate change is as urgent as coronavirus

    21 Jun 2020

    Greta Thunberg has said that the world needs to learn the lessons of coronavirus and treat climate change with similar urgency.

    'Like the speed of the wind': Kenya's lakes rise to destructive highs due to climate change

    20 Oct 2020

    Peering into the lake, the village elder struggled to pinpoint where beneath the hyacinth and mesquite weeds lay the farm he lived in his entire life until the water rose like never before and swallowed everything.

    Avocado boom comes at a price in Portugal's parched Algarve

    14 Oct 2020

    Avocados guzzle four times more water than Algarve's traditional orange crops. Plantations of the fruit cover some 1,600 hectares (3,950 acres), nearly double the area in 2018.

    2021 was sixth hottest year on record globally: Scientists

    13 Jan 2022

    Two US science agencies - Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - and a private measuring group released their calculations for last year's global temperature on Thursday, and all said it wasn’t far behind ultra-hot 2016 and 2020.

    Millions in South Asia wilt in heat as Delhi rubbish dump burns

    29 Apr 2022

    Power outages compounded the misery of millions of people wilting in a heatwave across India and Pakistan on Friday, with experts blaming climate change for an early onset of roasting summer temperatures.

    'In the mouth of dragons:' Melting glaciers threaten Pakistan's northern areas

    08 Jul 2022

    Pakistan is home to more than 7,000 glaciers, more than anywhere else on Earth outside the poles. Rising global temperatures linked to climate change are causing the glaciers to rapidly melt, creating thousands of glacial lakes.

    'Climate change affects everyone:' Europe battles wildfires in intense heat

    18 Jul 2022

    Climate scientists say heatwaves more frequent and more intense; Hundreds of deaths attributed to the heat in Portugal; Britain braced for hottest day on record; Temperatures reached 45.7˚C in Spain in recent days.

    Climate change behind 'extraordinarily above normal rain' in Pakistan

    20 Aug 2022

    Excessive heat or back-to-back heatwaves in the southern parts of the country in May and June this year created a "strong seasonal or heat low" in July that caused heavy rains in southern Pakistan, Geo News reported.

    Already shrunk by half, Swiss glaciers melting faster: Study

    22 Aug 2022

    The researchers estimated that ice volumes on the glaciers had shrunk by half over the subsequent 85 years — until 2016. Since then, the glaciers have lost an additional 12%, over just six years.

    Oceans saved us, now we can return the favour

    25 Jun 2022

    Our species has returned the favour by dumping mountains of plastic waste into the sea, emptying the deep blue of big fish, and poisoning coastlines with toxic chemicals and agricultural runoff that create dead zones bereft of oxygen.

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