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Historic flooding in southern Brazil kills 170Ā 
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Historic flooding in southern Brazil kills 170Ā 

Two men paddle a canoe made of zinc tiles and styrofoam down a flooded street in the Vila Farrapos neighborhood in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on May 29, 2024. Scientists say that climate change made flooding twice as likelyĀ  By Climate Spotlight Staff Sao Paulo, BRAZIL, June 4, 2024 On Monday, a team of international scientists […]

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June 4, 2024
Protecting Earth’s Lungs
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Protecting Earth’s Lungs

by Climate Spotlight Staff RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. August 15, 2023 The Brazil National Institute of Space Research detected a 33.6% drop in deforestation in the Amazon during the first six months of President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva’s term. In July, the federal agency reported that the satellite data was gathered from a system […]

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August 15, 2023
brown guanaco on desert
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Climate change drives Argentina’s record heatwave

According to a group of climate scientists from the World Weather Attribution, the record heatwave that hit Argentina at around this time last year was made 60 times more likely by climate change. Computer model simulation comparing the climate of today, after approximately 1.2ĀŗC of global warming since the late 1800s, to that of the […]

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December 31, 2022
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