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Major US climate disasters occur every three weeks, report finds

Fifth National Climate Assessment says nowhere is safe from warming, but some communities are impacted harder than others.
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People react as a sudden rain shower soaks them while being evacuated flooded homes in Louisiana.

Trucks evacuate people from a neighbourhood in LaPlace, Louisiana, that was flooded by Hurricane Ida in 2021. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty

‘Unprecedented’: That’s how an assessment, released by the administration of President Joe Biden, describes the toll that climate change is taking on the United States.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03554-w

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