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Environment The tropics on fire: scientist's grim vision of global warming
Soaring greenhouse gas emissions, driven by a surge in coal use in countries such as China and India, are threatening temperature rises that will turn damp and humid forests into parched tinderboxes, said Dr Chris Field, co-chair of the UN's Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
 A “prolonged, dangerous heatwave” was sweeping across parts of the central and eastern United States on... |
 Hundreds of firefighters in Utah have struggled to suppress a wildfire that scorched an additional 20,000... | ||
 Floodwaters tore through Kentucky neighborhoods, damaging homes and streets as photos capture the aftermath.
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