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A UN report shows climate change’s escalating toll on people and nature

The window to reduce emissions and avoid most disastrous consequences is closing fast, experts say

photo of a child riding a bike near the shoreline in the Maldives

Those people who are most vulnerable to climate change are being hit the hardest, a new United Nations’ climate report emphasizes. In the Maldives (shown), communities are losing their coastlines to erosion and rising sea levels.

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By Nikk Ogasa

- More than 2 years ago

Neither adaptation by humankind nor mitigation alone is enough to reduce the risk from climate impacts, hundreds of the world’s scientists say.