UN report counts human cost of changing climate
30 Nov 2015
A new study informs delegates to the Paris summit that extreme weather in the past two decades has claimed well over half a million lives and cost trillions of dollars.
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Cyclone Nargis claimed 138,000 lives in Myanmar in 2008 and affected many thousands more. |
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