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South Asia’s climate migration is a ticking bomb

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Despite the alarming magnitude of climate displacement in the region, responses from governments and international agencies have been inadequate
Syed Munir Khasru

Horn of Africa drought not possible without climate change

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Science This Week | ESA launches rocket to study Jupiter’s moons, flash droughts to increase as Earth warms and more

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As Earth warms, more 'flash droughts' will suck soil and plants dry

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Himachal ready to deal with any drought-like situation: CM Sukhvinder

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Arthi Namdev Jadhav, 28, holds a framed photograph of her farmer husband who died by suicide, in Hingangaon village in Maharashtra’s Beed district.
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The half-sickle women of Maharashtra

43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year: report

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Debris surrounds damaged homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, September 29, 2022, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Experts caution that attributing any single event to La Nina or its better-known cousin, El Nino, is difficult as they pronounced Thursday, March 9, 2023, that the La Nina weather phenomenon has come to an end. But they can say generally that tornadoes in the Southeast and hurricanes are more frequent during La Nina.
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La Nina, which worsens hurricanes and drought, is gone

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