As long as we're still increasing the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, global average temperatures will continue to rise. The event we're experiencing in europe right now is quite an unusual event for the current warming of approximately one point one degrees globaly. It's estimated to be the sort of event that you'd expect once every hundred, once every 300 years, under current conditions.
Vast stretches of the temperate world are baking or burning, and as climate change marches on widespread heatwaves will
only grow more intense and more common. After a half-century of insurgency, some rebels of Colombia’s disbanded FARC group needed a new calling: they have become
tour guides. And a look at where Ukraine can
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