extreme weather
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Africa
Mozambique floods heighten disease, malnutrition risks – UN agencies
Catastrophic flooding across Mozambique is devastating lives and livelihoods, sharply increasing the risk of disease outbreaks and malnutrition, while also…
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Asia Pacific
Deadly storms sweep South and Southeast Asia, leaving over 1,600 dead
From Sri Lanka’s central highlands to Indonesia’s flood-swollen river basins, a wave of climate-fuelled cyclones and monsoon rains has unleashed…
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Climate Change
Arab region pushed to limits by climate extremes as 2024 smashes heat records
The Arab region is heating at nearly twice the global average, UN weather experts warned on Thursday, after 2024 saw…
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Asia Pacific
Asia: Lives upended by cyclones, ‘extreme’ rainfall on the rise, warn UN agencies
Across southeast Asia, record-breaking rains and flooding caused by back-to-back tropical storms have claimed hundreds of lives and brought devastation…
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