Record 7 Million People Displaced by Extreme Weather Events in First Half of 2019

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By Olivia RosaneSep 13, 2019, 9:16 am183 pts
In another sign of the climate crisis, a record seven million people were displaced from their homes by extreme weather events during the first half of 2019, The New York Times reported Thursday. The number comes from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), which has been using data from…

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