Future of the Environment

Exploring the relationship between climate change and extreme weather

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Many people across the world have recently been negatively impacted by extreme weather events. Image: REUTERS/TT News Agency

Sonia Elks
Journalist, Reuters
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this woman is cooling off under a mist system and shade structure of a cooling station that neighbors set up in a front yard for people to use during the scorching weather of a heatwave in Seattle, Washington, U.S
Katherine Milton, who is experiencing homelessness, cools off under a mist system and shade structure of a cooling station that neighbors set up in a front yard for people to use during the scorching weather of a heatwave in Seattle, Washington, U.S Image: REUTERS/Jason Redmond

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