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Millions affected by climate change and extreme weather in Latin America and Caribbean – UN…

Staff Writer Aug 18, 2021

(United Nations News) Climate-related and geophysical events resulted in the loss of 312,000 lives and directly affected more than 277 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, a new report released by the World Meteorological…
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Caribbean gets smart to cope with hurricanes

Michelle Nurse Sep 25, 2019 0

(Phys.org) After monster Hurricane Irma annihilated the farm sector of Barbuda in 2017, growers got smart: among other changes, they moved their crops to higher ground. There and elsewhere across the Caribbean, as tourism-dependent…
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