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An emaciated cow stands at the bottom of the water pan that has been dried up for 4 months in Iresteno, a bordering town with Ethiopia, on September 1, 2022. - The devastating Horn of Africa drought is set to get even worse with a fifth consecutive failed rainy season, the UN's weather agency forecasted, fearing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are already going through their worst drought for 40 years and another poor rainy season is now highly likely, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Horn of Africa drought is set to become the region鈥檚 worst on record

A sixth failed rainy season would deepen the long-term drought in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia that has contributed to a devastating food crisis

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This aerial picture taken from an airplane on July 27, 2021, shows the smoke rising from a forest fire outside the village of Berdigestyakh, in the republic of Sakha, Siberia. - Russia is plagued by widespread forest fires, with the Sakha-Yakutia region in Siberia being the worst affected. According to many scientists, Russia -- especially its Siberian and Arctic regions -- is among the countries most exposed to climate change. The country has set numerous records in recent years and in June 2020 registered 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the town of Verkhoyansk -- the highest temperature recorded above the Arctic circle since measurements began. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

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Northern forests released a record amount of carbon dioxide in 2021

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Students ate less meat for three years after a talk on climate impact

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We can’t engineer our way out of the water crisis in the Southwest US

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NAKURU, RIFT VALLEY, KENYA - 2021/10/17: A view of a submerged Roberts Camp after the unprecedented rise of water levels in Lake Baringo. The flooding situation in Rift Valley lakes exacerbated by climate change has led to displacement of thousands of people from their homes and work. There are growing calls for world leaders to put more effort in addressing the effects of climate change. Communities living near the catchment areas in the global south are the most affected. (Photo by James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Lake levels are rising across the world and climate change is to blame

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perfect blue sky with clouds and water of the sea

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We need to test solar geoengineering techniques soon, say researchers

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A Kemp's ridley sea turtle makes its way to the ocean on June 29, 2022, at West Dennis Beach in West Dennis, Massachusetts after eight months of rehabilitation at the New England Aquariums sea turtle rehabilitation center in Quincy. - Over 500 were found on the shores of Cape Cod cold-stunned in November and December of 2021. (Photo by Lauren Owens Lambert / AFP) (Photo by LAUREN OWENS LAMBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sea turtle strandings on the US east coast have increased drastically

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Dry ground in a former lagoon

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Rare triple-dip La Ni帽a is mostly to blame for South America’s drought

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Oosterschelde flood barrier with windmills in the Netherlands at the Northern Sea taken from above with a drone

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Coastal cities have added 2500 squares kilometres of land since 2000

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Hulhumale, a new island in the Maldives

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Artificial urban islands could supply homes in Maldives as waters rise

High-rise cities on two or three reclaimed islands up to 6 metres above sea level could secure the long-term future of the Maldives in the face of climate change

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Life

How climate change is forcing animals that mate for life to break up

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Plants are spreading up mountains faster than thought in North America

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Technology

We don’t need ‘miracle’ green technologies to save the planet

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Earth

Launching a huge dust cloud from the moon could ease global warming

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