Climate change significantly increased the likelihood of last year’s severe drought in the Amazon, a study by the World Weather Organization (WWA) reveals. This international team of scientists discovered that human-induced climate change made the drought 30 times more probable. They focused on the period from June to November. Lead author Ben Clarke explains that […]
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