Climate change making extreme events worse in Australia - report

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Country faces more frequent and more severe weather events if it fails to make deep and swift cuts to carbon emissions

The extreme heatwaves, flooding and bush fires striking Australia have already been intensified by climate change and are set to get even worse in future, according to a new report. Only fast and deep...

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