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Published online 6 April 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070402-10
Corrected online: 10 April 2007

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Effects of climate change tallied up

Increased drought, flood and disease 'will hit poorest hardest'.

Climate change is having an impact now on our planet and its life, according to the latest instalment of a report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And the future problems caused by rising seas, growing deserts and more frequent droughts, all look set to affect the developing world more than rich countries, they add.

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