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Just half a degree less global warming would avert food shortage

Just half a degree less global warming would avert food shortage

3 April 2018

Governments are dithering over whether to limit climate change to 1.5°C or 2°C, but it seems the stricter target would avoid food shortages and major economic losses
Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest

Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest

27 March 2018

Even some of the more remote parts of the Amazon rainforest, far from major rivers, were once densely populated – centuries before the arrival of Europeans

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