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Holding tight in hurricanes

Turks and Caicos Islands, Carribean

EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS HAVE BEEN increasing due to climate change and when hurricanes Irma and Maria battered the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2017, buildings were flattened, trees were uprooted and a community

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