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‘Easter eggflation’: How climate change and budget cuts have sent the price of chocolate soaring
Human-caused climate change has fueled extreme weather events in West Africa, causing cocoa production to plummet.
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Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst?
While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans
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Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modeling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points.
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'Our bodies bear the cost': Patagonia's firefighters battle blazes and austerity in ancient forest
Wildfires are still tearing apart the drought-stricken region of Patagonia, ravaging its once-pristine forests.
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‘We're tired of counting damages’: Call for climate funds after landslide devastates Sicilian town
Environmental groups are warning that Italy’s lack of investment in climate mitigation is leaving communities dangerously exposed, after a cyclone forced more than 1,500 people from their homes in southern Sicily.
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What happens to the human body in 49C heat? Australians are finding out
Doctors warn there are biological limits to temperatures we can survive, and exposure to extreme heat can provoke a heart attack.
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‘Exceptionally cold’: How a warming Arctic is pushing the US and Eastern Europe into a deep freeze
Warm Arctic waters and cold continental land are combining to stretch the dreaded polar vortex in a way that sent much of the United States a devastating dose of winter weather.
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