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Last year was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere for the past two thousand years, researchers reveal after foraging through tree ring width data.
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2023 comes up as hottest summer in 2,000 years: Scientists reveal

HQ Team May 14, 2024: Last year was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere for the past two thousand years, researchers found.

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At least 75.9 million people were forced to flee their homes due to conflict, violence or disasters within their state’s borders in 2023, according to a UN report.
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About 76 million people are internally displaced worldwide, says UN

HQ Team May 15, 2024: At least 75.9 million people were forced to flee their homes due to conflict, violence or disasters within.

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The world’s top sixty private banks have financed 4,200 fossil fuel companies through lending and underwriting to the tune of $6.9 trillion during the last eight years, a report found.
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Top global banks pump in about $7 trillion into fossil fuel companies

HQ Team May 14, 2024: The world’s top sixty private banks have financed 4,200 fossil fuel companies through lending and underwriting to the.

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The world’s tropics lost 4.1 million hectares of forests, the equivalent of 11 soccer fields, every minute in 2022, according to the World Resources Institute.
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Unauthorised ghost roads in tropical forests raising fears of deforestation

HQ Team May 10, 2024: There are many unauthorised roads in tropical forests than what is shown in official records. This has raised.

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Exposure to nitrogen dioxide, which comes mainly from traffic emissions, may affect brain development in children between four and eight years, a study finds.
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Traffic emissions may lower children’s attention capacity in 4-8 year group

HQ Team May 2, 2024: Exposure to nitrogen dioxide, which comes mainly from traffic emissions, may affect brain development in children between four.

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El Niño climate decimates farming in southern Africa, UN official says
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El Niño climate decimates farming in southern Africa, UN official says

HQ Team April 30, 2024: El Niño climate phase, which started last year, has caused ocean temperatures to rise and has already “decimated”.

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About 16.2 bits of microplastic are inhaled by humans every hour — that constitutes a credit card for an entire week, according to research published by the American Institute of Physics.
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56 major companies responsible for 50% of world’s plastic waste: Study

HQ Team April 25, 2024: Plastic pollution is a global phenomenon with plastic nanoparticles and associated chemicals contaminating every corner of the earth,.

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Europe is the fastest warming continent, with temperatures rising at around twice the global average rate, according to the 2023 edition of Copernicus Climate Change Service’s European State of the Climate report.
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Europe is fastest fastest-warming continent in the world: Copernicus

HQ Team April 22, 2024: Europe is the fastest warming continent, with temperatures rising at around twice the global average rate, according to.

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Forty-five per cent of 82 urban areas in China, with a total population of about 700 million, are sinking — with 16% falling at 10mm a year or more, a study finds.
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Beijing, Tianjin among sinking cities in China, UEA researchers say

HQ Team April 20, 2024: Forty-five percent of 82 urban areas in China, with a total population of about 700 million, are sinking.

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If you are in a hospital, then at times, you get bacterial infections from one source — yourself.
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Warming oceans drive flesh-eating bacteria northward, increasing infections

HQ Team April 15,2024:Adding to the climate change worries is the fear Vibrio vulnificus, commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria, is expanding its territory.

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