The world four degrees warmer: flooded, starving, and broke
As the Cancun Summit kicks off, scientists outline the catastrophic scale of the climate change threat
Scientists have warned that increases in global average temperatures of four degrees Celsius, resulting in drought, desertification and rapid sea level rise, could be terrifyingly real by 2060. A lack...
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