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Life and death in a hotter world

HE AUG. 9 WARNING FROM THE U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) couldn’t be more clear: the reality of climate change is unequivocal, its effects are already playing out in every region of the planet, and we need to act now before the outlook gets worse. In a 4,000-page report, the U.N.’s climate-science body laid out in methodical detail the ways in which human activity has set life on the planet on a

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